Name 15 poetic devics with meaning and example
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1.Allegatory
Short moral story
2.Alliteration
Use of same consonant at beginning of each word
3.Assonance
The repetition of similar vowels in successive words
4.Mood
A characteristic state of feeling
5.Consonance
A property of sounding harmonious
6.Metaphor
A figure of speech that suggest a non literary similarity
7.Enjambment
Continuation from one line of verse to next
8.Imaginary
An ability to form Mental picture of things or event
9.Rhyme
A correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
10.Tone
The distinctive property of a complex sound
11.Couplet
Stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
12.Foreshadowing
The act of providing vague advanced indications
13.Free verse
A poetry that does not rhyme or irregular metre
14.Hyper bole
Extravagant exaggeration
15.Irony
Incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
16.Literal
Limited to the explict meaning of the word or text
17.Figurative
Not literal
18.Narrator
Someone who tells a story
19.Speaker
Someone who Express in language
20.Metonymy
Substituting the name of figure for nature of things
21.Apostrophe
A mark used to indicate the emission of one or more letters
22. Pun
A humorous play on words
23.Paradox
A statement that contradicts itself
24. Plot
Small area ground containing specific vegetation
25. Point of view
A mental position of which things are perceived
26. Protagonist
A principal character in work of fiction
27. antagonist
Someone who offers opposition
28. Stanza
A fixed number of line of verse forming of poem
29.Rhyme
Interval during which a reoccuring statement occurs
30.satire
A witty language used to insult
31. Setting
The physical position of something
32. Simile
A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things