Select three poems of your choice and highlight the presence of listed literary devices explain the literary devices and cite suitable examples from selected poems given below is a list of literary devices that you can look for in your poem.
1.simile
2.metaphor
3.personification
4.alliteration
5.repetition
6.oxymoron
7.refrain
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Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. A poem is created out of poetic devices composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements.
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Literary Devices in Poems - Definitions and Examples of Literary Devices
By Ruchika Gupta
Literary Devices in Poems
Literary Devices in Poems - Literary/Poetic device is a technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing.
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List of different poetic devices used in poetry is as follows -
Alliteration
Metaphor
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Anaphora
Oxymoron
Antithesis
personification
Assonance
Refrain
Asyndeton
Rhyme
Consonance
Repetition
Enjambment
Simile
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
Imagery
Transferred Epithet
Inversion
The definitions and examples of literary devices which are used in poetry are as follows:
1) Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound at the start of 2 or more consecutive words is known as anaphora.
Examples of Alliteration are as follows -
1. Class 10 poem- Snake
“And flickered his two-forked tongue
From his lips, and mused a moment,
And stopped and drank a little more,
From the burning bowels of the earth.
Use of ‘b’ sound in burning bowels.
2. Class 9 poem- Lord Ullin’s daughter
“His horsemen hard behind us ride;
Should they our steps discover,
Then who will cheer my bonny bride
When they have slain her lover/”