Poetry can follow a strict structure, or none at all, but many different types of poems use poetic devices. Poetic devices are tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or build up a mood or feeling. These devices help piece the poem together, much like a hammer and nails join planks of wood together. Some of these devices are used in literature for the sake of clarity, This ppt will clarify all your doubts about the same

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Ms. Jatinder Dhiman

2. • Alliteration - The repetition of initial
consonant sounds.
• Rain reigns roughly through the day.
Raging anger from the sky
Partners prattle of tormented tears
From clouds wondering why
Lightning tears their souls apart.
• In the first two lines, the r sound is
repeated. In the third line p starts two
adjoining words.

3. Assonance - The repetition of vowel
sounds.
Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any
sense or any combination of senses.
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4. Metaphor - A comparison between two objects
with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of
them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used,
such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison.
Sunshine, hope aglow,
Streams from heaven's store
Bringing smiles of warming grace
Which lighten heavy loads.
Clouds are ships in full sail
Racing across the sky-blue sea.
Wind fills the cotton canvas
Pushing them further away from me.
In the first stanza, sunshine is compared to hope
while in the second, clouds are compared to ships.

5. Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate
sound.
Personification - A figure of speech which
endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with
human traits or abilities.
Anger frowns and snarls,
Sending bolts of fire from darkest night
That bring no brilliance,
Rather only added blackness of sight.
Frowning and snarling are human traits that anger cannot
experience; however using them as traits for anger creates
the imagery needed.

6. Point-of-view - The author's point-of-view
concentrates
on the vantage point of the speaker, or
"teller", of the
story or poem.
1st person: the speaker is a character in the story or poem
and tells it from his/her perspective (uses "I")
3rd person limited: the speaker is not part of the story, but
tells about the other characters but limits
information about what one character sees
and feels.
3rd person omniscient: the speaker is not part of the story,
but is able to "know" and describe what all
characters are thinking.

7. Repetition - the repeating of words, phrases, lines,
or stanzas.
Rhyme - The similarity of ending sounds existing
between two words.
Rhyme scheme - The sequence in which the rhyme
occurs. The first end sound is
represented as the letter "a", the
second is "b", etc.
Stanza - a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in
terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme
scheme.

8. Simile - A comparison between two objects using a
specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or
"than".
Sunshine, like hope aglow,
Streams from heaven's sky
Bringing smiles of warming grace
On breeze whispers like a sigh.
Clouds are like ships in full sail
Racing across the sky-blue sea.
Wind fills the cotton canvas
Pushing them further away from me.
These two stanzas of poetry and those for metaphor
are nearly identical. Both metaphor and simile are
comparisons of unlike things, but metaphor states one
thing is the other while simile says one is like the other,
or as the other.

9. The dove, with olive branch in beak,
Glides over all the land
Searching for a place to light.
Storms of war linger on every hand,
Everywhere the hawk does fight.
The dove is a symbol of peace, and the
hawk is a symbol of war. Using them in
poetry gives an image without having to
explain in detail.
Symbol: something which represents something else
besides itself.

10. Elegy: a poem of lament (extreme sorrow, such as caused
by death)
Free verse: a poem without either a rhyme or a rhythm
scheme, although rhyme may be used, just without
a pattern.
Blank verse: un-rhymed lines of iambic pentameter (ten
syllables with all even numbered syllables accented)
Imagery: the use of words to create a mental picture
Mood: the emotional effect of a poem or a story
Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate
sound.