poetic devices

Line Break

• Is the end of one line of a poem and the beginning of new line

Imagery

• It is the writer or the speaker’s use of language that create vlear mental picture or physical sensation

Type of imagery

• Auditory Imagery

• Gustatory Imagery

• Kinetic Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

• Visual Imagery

Symbol

• Can be a thing, image or motif that possess meaning that goes beyond its literal sense.

Personification

• It is the giving of human qualities, feelings, action or characteristics to non-human entities.

Hyperbole

• It is the use of over- exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis

Allusion

• It is when a poet or writer mentions in his works

Apostrophe

• It is when a speaker directly adresses someone or somehing

Oxymoron

• Is a figure of speech when two opposite words are placed side by side to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxial means.

Metaphor

• Is an indirect comparison between unlike things

Simile

• Is a direct comparison between unlinke things that share something