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Definition and Examples Poetic and Languages Devices - Coggle Diagram
Definition and Examples Poetic and Languages Devices
Language Devices
Similie
Example - "As cold as ice"
Def - Comparing something to something else
Repetition
Def - Repetition of a word.
Example - "Cool Cool Cool Cool"
Alliteration
Example - "Cool Cat"
Def - Repetition of the first letter of a word
Oxymoron
Example - "Deafening Silence"
Def - Two contrasting things put together
Metaphor
Example - "The darkness was a void"
Def - Saying something is something else
Pathetic Fallacy
Example - "The air was heavy"
Def - Describing the words
Personification
Example: "Smacked the belly out of the air"
Def - To have a something personified
Poetic Devices
Caesura
Example - "Half a League. Half a League."
Def - A break between words within a foot
Anaphora :
Example - "In every cry of every man, In every infants cry of fear"
Def - Repeats a phrase at the start of a line
Extended Metaphor
Example/Def - An idea being used again and again throughout a poem
Enjambment
Def - The continuation of a lines from one line to another in a poem.
Example - "I'm such a, cool guy"
Fricative
Example - "Freddy Finnegan found a five pound note"
Def - The use of the "ph" sound
Sibiliance
Example - "Sudden Successive flights of bullets"
The use of the "s" sound
Plosive
Example - "People are so powerful"
Def - Use of letters p, t, k; b, d, g,