poetic devices

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  • Created on: 13-02-19 20:19

alliteration

alliteration is the use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word 

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allegory

allegory is a short moral story

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assonance

assonance is the use of similar vowels in successive words 

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consonance

consonance is the property of sounding harmonious

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enjambment

enjambment is the continuation from one line at the end of a verse on to the first line in the next verse 

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imagery

imagery is the ability to form mental pictures of things or events 

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metaphor

a figure of speech that is a non-literal similarity 

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rhyme

correspondence in the final sound of two or more lines

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mood

mood is a characteristic of a state of feeling 

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