English Poetic Devices
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pathetic fallacy
attribution of human emotions onto natural elements
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synesthesia
the use of multiple senses to describe an object
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synecdoche
use of a part to represent the whole
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metonymy
use of a related object to refer to another object
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anaphora
repetition of the first word
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polysyndeton
the repeated use of conjunctions
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caesura
a stop in the middle of a sentence
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enjambment
a continuation after a line
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personification
the attribution of human characteristics on inhuman objects
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alliteration
repetition of the first letters of words
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assonance
repetition of vowels
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consonance
repetition of consonants
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chiasmus
reversed grammatical structure
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