Poetic Devices Rhyme
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Rhyme the repetition of sounds at the ends of words Example: From a bungling, noisy, happy bear You have nought a single thing to fear. Slant rhyme or near rhyme the sound of the accented syllables is similar, but not exactly the same Example: Come on you and I and let us wander To Australia, the land down-under. Internal rhyme occurs at some place after the beginning and before the closing syllables Example: He went to bed dead from working so hard. Alliteration both a generic and specific term for the repetition of consonant and vowel sounds. In the specific sense, alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds: Example: lonely little lady or Better Buy Buick Assonance the repetition of vowel sounds Example: steamy fleet, heavy levy, or cool fool in the motor pool Consonance the repetition of final consonant sounds Example: odds and ends, find … abound Onomatopoeia the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning Example: the bell clanged, the lion roared, or Batman zapped him Repetition repeating the same line, phrase, or word to achieve a sound effect Imagery the representation through language of sense experience. It is the principal device by which the poet attempts to affect all the faculties of the reader. The abstract statement, “War is horror,” is directed primarily to the intellect; it has neither the physical and emotional appeal nor the total effectiveness of a mental image which pictures the mangled body of a young soldier writhing in pain Example: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock kneed, coughing like hangs, we can curse through sludge, --- drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Metaphor an implied comparison. Generically, it can also stand for all types of comparisons. Other general terms for imagery are trope and figure of speech. Example: I’m a riddle in nine syllables And elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils.
The ironwork on the balconies sags like rotten lace Like a stab from behind, the phone rings He was as nervous as a bull in fly-time Personification consists of giving the attributes of a human to an animal, object, or idea Example: Love smiled on him. Love walked right in and stole the shadows away. The sea that bares her bosom to the moon Death stand above me, whispering low. Metonymy a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience, or, put more simply, the use of the part for the whole Example: Here come the redskins! Here come the palefaces! The port was full of tars and salts, old hands all.
Example: Believe him, he has know the world too long, And seen the death of much immoral song.
‘Tis folly to be wise. Overstatement (Hyperbole) simply poetic exaggerations Example: You could have knocked me over with a feather! A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. All night I made my bed to swim; with my tear I dissolved my couch.
Example: Hold within your hand an hour A bit of lighted fire And you’ll experience a sensation Of excessive and disagreeable warmth. Irony a situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. There are three kinds:
Example: I’m handsome, witty, and likable; but the best thing about me is my modesty.
Symbol an item which means more than what it is in itself; it accumulates meaning beyond the literal definition. A poet may use a rose merely as a flower, but he may add something to its meaning until it becomes a symbol of perfect beauty. He may use darkness as a symbol of death; death strikes us as darkness, but much more than mere darkness. A metaphor used to its fullest will become a symbol. Following is a list of questions that you may apply to any poem.
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