Poetic Device

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Personification

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Capital letter
A thing or animal is given human attribute

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Metaphor

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Indirect Comparison

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Imagery

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Description create a picture in the reader’s mind

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Assonance

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Repetition of two or more vowel sounds

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Simile

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Mentioning of similarities btw two by using the word “like”, “as”

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Refrain

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It is a word, line or phrase that is repeated within the line or stanzas of the poem itself

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Antithesis

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It is two terms or idea having contrast or opposite meaning

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Transferred Epithet

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It is when an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another

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Rhetorical Question

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Asked when the speaker already knows the answer, asked to make a point rather than expecting or needing any information or answer from the listener

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Allegory

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Saying a strong message through something by self distancing . Used to preach a moral lesson.

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Consonant

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It is a stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants sound in neighbouring words whose vowel sound are different

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Anthropomorphism

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Study about human in the subject of science and social science

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Epithet

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It is a word or a phase which describes the main quality of someone or something

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Couplet

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It is literary device featuring two consecutive lines of poetry that typically rhyme and have the same meter

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Connotation

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Suggested beyond what is expected

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Allusion

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It will reference to a place, person, a work of literature or something that happened in history

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Symbolism

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Symbolise something beyond its literal meaning to convey complex ideas, emotions, and themes

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Irony

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Contrast with literal interpretation, having rhetorical meaning

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Apostrophe

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Address / call out a non living entity

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Pun

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Also called as paronomasia. Have two or more meaning (like double meaning) in humorous or rhetorical effect

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Euphemism

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Expressing a hard term in mild way

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Apostrophe and personification difference

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• Personification gives human qualities to animals, object, and ideas.
• Apostrophe has characters talking aloud to objects and ideas as if they were human.

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Synecdoche

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It is about a part is made to represent the whole or vice verse
Ex: Saying that “I’ve got wheels” instead of “I have a car”

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Paradox

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It is about the statement appears to contradict itself Ex: To bring peace we must war Be cruel to be kind

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Onomatopoeia

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It creates a rhythmic pattern that imitates the sound in reality. It is use to words to create a metrical pattern and rhyme scheme

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Rhyming word

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Last words of more than one line have same rhyming

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Rhyme scheme

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Similar to rhyming word; but answering it in scheme of the 4 lines or more in a way of patterns

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Alliterated words

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Same starting letter words in same line with different meaning - Repeating of consonants sound at the beginning of words

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Oxymoron

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It is a rhetorical device: contradictory terms(two) or concepts are combined to create a paradoxical effect.

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