Poetic Devices (PA2)

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Assonance

Repition of vowel sounds in nearby words

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Personification

Making inanimate objects / animals or birds look or feel human

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Imagery

using figurative language to represent objects , actions and ideas appeal to our physical sense

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Metaphor

Devices comparing two things or qualities which are unlike

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Anaphora

Repition of the same word in successive lines

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Transferred Epithet

A figure of speech which an epithet or adjective grammtically qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing (ie poet transfers his melancholic mood to the darkness of the night)

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Refrain

A phrase or group of verses repeat at interveals throughout the poem (patter of the rain is repeated in rain on the roof)

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Onomatopoeia

USing a word which suggests the meaning by its sound

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Alliteration

Repittion of intial consonant sounds in the same time, (hover and humid in rain on the roog)

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Visual Imagery

Use of words that create a visual representation

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Auditory Imagery

Use of words that represent a sound a pleases sense of hearingRe

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Repitition

Repetition of words/phrases in the same line to emphasize something

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