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By Sohail khan
Tue, 10-Jan-2023, 02:11

poetic device.

Figure of speech or poetic device:

Total :- 41 poetic device.

1)Simile:- comparison like or as .

Eg,M R singh like a lion.


2)Mataphore:- comparison without like oras.

Eg, Mr singh was a lion.


3)Internal rhyme:- within a sentence repeated word

Eg, there is glue in my shoe.


4)External rhyme:- within a two sentences repeated word..

Eg, twinkle twinkle little star

  How I wonder what you are


5)Rhyme scheme:- the repeatation of word in stanza given names 

Eg ,  AABCBBC


6)Personification:- treated non living things like a living things.

Eg, death laid it's icy hands on him.


7)Onomatopoeic:- words showing sound of something .

Eg, the bees buzzed and the sheep want Baa.


8)Alliteration or consonance:- consonants sound is repeated.

Eg, Peter picked a purple pen.


9)Assonance:- vowel sound is repeated.

Eg, slow over the road.


10)Repetition:- words is repeated.

Eg, twinkle twinkle little star.


11)Apostrophe :- taking about an absence or dead person or a non living things.

Eg, twinkle twinkle little star.


12)Antithesis:- opposite words at a distance.

Eg, speech is silver but silence is golden.


13)Oxymoron:- two opposite words are written together.

Eg, life a bittersweet


  • (14)Hyperbole :- exaggeration or   to create a strong emotional response.

Eg, I have told you thousands times.


15)Pleonasm or Tautology :- repetitiong a similar word meaning.

Eg, the fairy went far away.


16)Inversion or Anastrophe:- order of word is inverse.

Eg, never again will you do that.( You will never do that again)


17)Climax :- word are in assending or increasing order in importance.

Eg, he came , he saw ,he conferred.


18)Anticlimax:- word are in descending order in importance.

Eg, he lost his family his car and his all phones 


19)Interrogation:- using of questions (?) 

Eg Are you crazy?.


20)Litotes:- saying something positive things  in a negative way.

Eg, the shirt is not bad.


21)Euphemism:- saying something negative in a possitive or nice way.

Eg, Amar passed away( death)  he is no more.


22)Sarcasm or Irony:- something unexpected and funny.

Eg, the police station got robbed.


23)Pun:- a word with two meanings ina sentence or makes sense of funny.

Eg, An ambassador is an honest man that lies abroad far his country. 


24)Synecdoche:- part is used to describe a whole things.

Eg, I bought new wheels ( new car).


25)Metonymy:- a word is use to describe something.

Eg, pen is mighter than sword.


26)Transferred Epithets:- transfer quality from living things to non living things.

Eg, I have sleepless nights.


27)Epigram:- witty of funny  tones.

Eg, If you can't be a good example you will be a horrible warning.


28)Paradox:- self contradictory and not possible.

Eg, I can't live with or without you.


29)Circumlocutions:- saying something in a round about way instead of starting it once 

Eg, the viewless country of air. ( Wind) .


30)Imagery:- something picture created in mind.

Eg, two roads diversed in a yellow wood.

31)Anaphora :- line began with same line in poem.

Eg, some say world will end in fire

     Some say in ice.


32)Refrain:- each stanza end with same repeatation word in poem 


33)Asyndetion:- no use of conjunction.

Eg, the cow is black, the sheep is white .


34)Allusion:- reference to a historical or literary person or event .


35)Enjambment:- no marks is used in poem.

Eg, dust of snow poem in class 10.


36) Analogy:- when metaphor and personification is used in poem.

Eg, the fog for a cat in poem class 10.


37)symbolism:-  word used for something.

Eg, a fire for desire and ice for heated.


38) Bracket:- within a  bracket sentences is written but nor spoken in stanza.

 Eg,Amanda poem class 10.


39) Euphony: Euphony is the repetitive use of mellow, melodic tones that are enjoyable to read or listen to. Soft consonant sounds like m, n, w, r, and f as well as consonants that vibrate, such s, sh, and th, are used to create this.


Eg, “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare)

40)Cacophony: Cacophony is the use of unappealing, repulsive, or harsh noises (mostly consonants) to evoke chaos, disorder, or dread.

Eg, “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! The frumious Bandersnatch!” (Lewis Carroll)

41)Connotation: Connotation is the use of a word to imply an unique association from its denotative, or literal, meaning.

Example: “She’s all states, and all princes, I” (John Donne)


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