Question

What are the poetic devices is called a legend of the northland?

Answer 1

The poetic devices used in A legend of the Northland are -

#Alliteration - Repetition of the same consonant sound

example "

In their furry, funny clothes" (repetition of sound f)

and "a still smaller one" (repetition of sound s)

Then she took a tiny scrap

(the repetition of ‘ t’ sound)

My cakes that seem too small

(s sound is repeated here)

#Enjambment -gyi refers to the practice of running lines from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation marks to indicate a pause (full stop, comma etc.).

Examples-

And the nights are so long in winter

That they cannot sleep them through;

(Here the first line rolls on to the next)

And the children look like bear’s cubs

In their funny, furry clothes:

(There is no comma or full stop after the first line and it rolls on to the second one)

For she said, “My cakes that seem too small

When I eat of them myself

Are yet too large to give away.”

(The first line carries on to the next without any punctuation mark)

#Simile - Comparision done with the help of words "like " and "as"

example -"And the children look like bear’s cubs", "Black as a coal in the flame" and "But all the rest of her clothes were burned" .

#Repetition - Usage of the same word to create a musical rhytm.

example " Away, away in the Northland,"

"And rolled and rolled it flat;"

"By boring, and boring, and boring,"

"Boring and boring for food."

#Rhyme Scheme -The poem is in the form of a ballad with four-line stanzas. Each stanza follows the pattern of the rhyme scheme ‘abcb’ .