Poetic Devices

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Anachronism

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Misplaced in time.

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Aphorism

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A cliched truth.

i.e. beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Apostrophe

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A direct address from someone not present.

i.e. Into the Woods-baker's wife

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Caesura

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Brake in the line of poetry.

i.e. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east

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Canon

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Literary acceptance

i.e. Jane Austen references.

A face like Mr. Darcy's.

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Caricature

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Exaggerate

i.e. Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile,

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Catharsis

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A build up of emotions then release.

i.e. “But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?”“For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.“After all this time?”“Always,” said Snape.”

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Conceit

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Super dissimilar comparison.

i.e. Fit as a fiddle

Spill the beans

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Connatation

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Emotional tag.

Guy-liner.

Associated with k-dramas and rock bands.

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Denotation

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Dictionary definition

Guy-liner:

A dark eye liner.

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Chiasmus

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Antithesis

i.e. “Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You.”

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Dissonance

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Inharmonic elements.

i.e. Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.

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Elogy

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Mourning poem

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End-Stopped Line

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Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art—Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night,

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Enjambment

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Stop in the middle of a thought.

i.e. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever:Its loveliness increases; it will never

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Epigram

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Short interesting satirical statement.

i.e. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness

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Epiphet

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Adjective in front of a noun/title

i.e. Elizabeth the Virgin Queen

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Hubris

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Fatal flaw of pride

i.e. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.

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Iambic

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rhytm of 5 accented and unaccented in a line.

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Literary Convention

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Something most people don't know but is accepted in a literary context.

i.e. foreshadowing.

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Hegemony

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Power structure.

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Meiosis

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Understatement

i.e. Not bad, not bad, Aang.

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Lexicon

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List of words

i.e. happiness, joy, ecstasy

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Lytotities

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Using double negatives to make a positive.

Your apartment is not unclean

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Limerick

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five anapestic (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) lines in which the first, second and fifth lines are longer

i.e. There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!

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Malapropism

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Off word use.

i.e. This does not portend (pretend) to be a great work of art.

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Masculine rhyme

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1 syllable

i.e. fat cat

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Metonymy

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replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated

i.e. Let me give you a hand. (Hand means help.)

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Omniscient POV

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More than 1 character's thoughts.

i.e. Svid. in Crime and Punishment.

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Organic Form

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Unfitted

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Parallelism

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Parallel structure.

i.e. By the ppl, for the ppl, with the ppl.

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Pastoral

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With a country theme

i.e. Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

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Periodic Sentence

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i.e. Because I needed milk, I went to the store.

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Prose

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Non-poetry.

i.e. Novels, articles, etc.

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Quatrain

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A quatrain is a verse with four lines, or even a full poem containing four lines, having an independent and separate theme.

i.e. He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there’s some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.

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Scansion

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Analysis of poem rhytm

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Sestet

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6 lines of poetry grouped

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Sestina

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7 lines of poetry grouped

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Surrealism

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Dream-like decription. Irrational.

i.e. My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglass

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Syntax

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Sentence Structure.

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Tenor

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i.e. the moon is swiss cheese.

the swiss cheese being the vehicle of the metaphor.

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Trope

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Turning something to see a new perspective.

i.e. irony and hyperbole.

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Vehicle

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Figurative part of a metaphor.

Your lips are roses.

Roses.

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Soliloquy

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he word soliloquy is derived from Latin word “solo” which means “to himself” and “loquor” means “I speak” respectively.

i.e. “To be, or not to be–that is the question:Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

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Sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

i.e.

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Foil

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A character that brings out the qualities of other characters.

i.e. Lavender Brown in Harry Potter.