Poetic Devices
- Created by: ElLiEbUrDeN
- Created on: 26-03-17 16:28
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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
- Caesura
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