poetic techniques language
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- poetic tecniques - language
- Metaphor
- comparing one thing to another, "the snow was a blanket over the town"
- Similie
- compairing two things with 'like' or as' "the snow was like a blanket over the town"
- Personification
- giving human qualities to the non-human. "the branched out fingers of the decerped tree"
- Imagery
- language that makes us imagine a sight, sound, touch, smell or taste.
- Tone
- the mood or feeling created in a poem.
- Pathetic Fallacy
- giving emotion to weather in order to create a mood within the text
- Irony
- language that says one thing but implies the opposite i.e. sarcasm
- Colloquial Language
- informal language, usually creates conversational or authentic language.
- onomatopoeia
- language that sounds like its meaning
- Alliteration
- words that are close together start with the same letter or sound
- Sibilance
- the repitiion of 's' or 'sh' sounds
- Assonance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds
- Consonance
- the repetition of consonant sounds
- Plosives
- short burst of sound: t, k, p, g or b sound
- Metaphor
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