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name the literary devices used in the poem Ozymandias. Class 10th No spams.... only relevant answer. Give an example for each literary device.

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Abinaya asked in English

explain the poetic device used in the poem ozymandias

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Anasua Ghosh answered this
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↵Literary Devices

.......Following are examples of literary devices Shelley uses in the poem. 

Alliteration
Repetition of a Vowel Sound

Two vast and trunkless legs
cold command
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
boundless and bare
lone and level sands stretchAnastrophe
Inversion of the Normal Word OrderWellthose passions read (normally, read those passions well)Enjambement (Also Spelled Without the First e)
Carrying the sense of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause    a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown 
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command 
"Whose frown" begins the enjambement.

Nothing beside remains: round the decay  
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, 
"Round the decay" begins the enjambement.

SynecdocheSubstitutionof a part to stand for the whole, or the whole to stand for a part.
The hand that mock'd them

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