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Poetic Devices

The document outlines various poetic devices that poets use to enhance their work, including rhyme scheme, alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, personification, repetition, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and anaphora. Each device is defined and accompanied by examples to illustrate its use in poetry. These tools help create rhythm, deepen meaning, and evoke emotions in readers.

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Poetic Devices

The document outlines various poetic devices that poets use to enhance their work, including rhyme scheme, alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, personification, repetition, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and anaphora. Each device is defined and accompanied by examples to illustrate its use in poetry. These tools help create rhythm, deepen meaning, and evoke emotions in readers.

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POETIC DEVICES

Poetic Devices are the common tools / structures that a poet can use to create rhythm,
enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

1) Rhyme scheme : Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of
each line in poetry.
The sky is very sunny, (A)
The children are funny. (A)
Under the tree we sit, (B)
But just for a bit. (B)

2) Alliteration : Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the


beginning of nearby words in a phrase; e.g. – the slippery snake slithered past the
slippery slide.

3) Simile: When one idea is similar to the other (comparison by using ‘as’ or ‘like’);
e.g. - She was as sweet as a rose.

4) Metaphor: Metaphor is a poetic device where an object is described as being the


same as another otherwise unrelated object. In other words, comparison drawn
between unrelated things; e.g. –

Life is like a roller coaster. (Simile)


It has its ups and downs. (Metaphor)

5) Imagery: It suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or


tastes; e.g. - Sparkling white, the blanket of snow covered the mountains.

6) Personification - when objects or animals are given human-like qualities. E.g. -


Opportunity knocked at his door.

7) Repetition: when a single word or phrase is used multiple times. It can help to
emphasize a point e.g. - What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny
compared to what lies within us.
8) Hyperbole - Hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration, not meant to be taken seriously;
e.g. - You snore louder than a freight train!

9) Onomatopoeia – It refers to words that imitate the natural sounds associated with
the actions they describe; e.g. - The soda fizzed as I poured it into the glass
10) Anaphora : Repetion of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive lines; e.g.
–
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

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