what is poetic device
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A poet is limited in the materials he can use in creating his works . All he has are words to express his ideas and feelings. Fortunately, the English language contains a wide range of words to choose for almost every thought, and there are also numerous plans or methods of arrangement of these words, called Poetic Devices, which can assist the writer in developing cogent expressions pleasing to his readers .
A few Poetic Devices :
- Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds .
- Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds .
- Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses .
- Metaphor - A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison .
- Meter - The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables .
- Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate sound .
- Personification - A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities .
- Repetition - The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas .
- Rhyme - The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words .
- Simile - A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than" .
- Stanza - A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme .
- Synesthesia - An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another .
Poetic devices are tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. These devices help piece the poem together, much like a hammer and nails join planks of wood together. Some of these devices are used in literature as well, but for the sake of clarity, we will look at all of these devices through the lens of poetry.