Poetic Devices

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  • Poetic Techniques
    • Caesura
      • A stop or pause in the middle of a line
    • Oxymoron
      • Is a figure of speech in which two opposites are joined to create an effect
    • Ambiguty
      • Ambiguty is a word, phrase or statement which contains more than one meaning
    • Personification
      • An object or thing is given human characteristics
    • Assonance
      • When two more words close to one another repeat the same vowel but start with different constant sounds
    • Pun
      • A play on words which often has one or more meanings
    • Couplet
      • A pair of lines that rhyme, usually at the end of a sonnet
    • Hyperbole
      • An unreal exaggeration to emphase the real situation
    • Metaphor
      • Describing something as if it was something else
    • Enjambment
      • A sentence that runs over one or more lines
    • Alliteration
      • It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first constant sound, occur close together in a series
    • Mood
      • Is referred to an atmosphere of an literary place, as it creates an emotional situation that effects the reader

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