The document discusses various poetic devices used in poetry such as metaphor, simile, alliteration, assonance, personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia. It defines each device and provides examples of their use. Poetic devices are used in poetry to create imagery. The document also includes references used in its creation.

1. POETRY 27 AUGUST 2021
Benrika Bansi
POETRY DEVICES
Figurative Language

2. TYPES OF POETIC
DEVICES
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Assonance
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia

3. THE USE OF POETIC
DEVICES WITHIN POEMS
ARE USED TO CREATE
IMAGERY.

4. METAPHOR
IMPLICIT COMPARISON.
COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS
USING THE WORD ‘IS’.

5. EXPLICIT COMPARISON.
COMPARISON BETWEEN
TWO THINGS USING THE
WORDS ‘LIKE’ OR ‘AS’.
SIMILIE

6. ALLITERATION
THE REPETITION OF CONSONANT*
SOUNDS AT THE THE BEGINNING
OF WORDS OR ‘STRESSED
SYLLABLES’ IN WORDS.
*A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel.

7. THE REPETITION OF
THE SAME VOWEL
SOUNDS* IN A SERIES
OF WORDS.
ASSONANCE
*vowel sounds— A E I O U

8. PERSONIFICATION
GIVING IN INANIMATE
OBJECTS HUMAN
ATTRIBUTES.
PATHETIC FALLACY-
HUMAN FEELINGS WHICH
CANNOT BE FELT BY
OBJECTS.

9. HYPERBOLE
EXAGGERATION THAT IS
USED TO MAKE
STATEMENTS MORE
EFFECTIVE BUT NOT TO BE
TAKEN LITERALLY.
PRONOUNCED HAI-PUH.BUH.LEE

10. ‘SOUND WORDS’
FORMED FROM THE
SOUNDS ASSOCIATED
WITH WHAT IT IS NAMED
ONOMATOPOEIA

11. “Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is
boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held
together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
— Paul Engle, from an article in The New York Times.

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