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    This document discusses various poetic devices that poets use to create rhythm, enhance meaning, and intensify moods or feelings in poems. It describes figures of speech like hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and euphemism. It also outlines figures of thought such as metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, and antithesis. Finally, it discusses figures of sound including alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, and repetition. These devices help poets craft their messages in an aesthetic form and piece poems together effectively.

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    This document discusses various poetic devices that poets use to create rhythm, enhance meaning, and intensify moods or feelings in poems. It describes figures of speech like hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and euphemism. It also outlines figures of thought such as metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, and antithesis. Finally, it discusses figures of sound including alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, and repetition. These devices help poets craft their messages in an aesthetic form and piece poems together effectively.

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    GOOD

    AFTERNOON
    POETIC
    DEVICES
    POETIC DEVICES
      tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance
    a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. 
    ◦These devices help
    piece the poem
    together, much like
    a hammer and
    nails join planks of
    wood together. 
    FIGURE OF SPEECH

    oExpressions commonly used by


    poets in composing poems in
    order to arouse feelings through
    evoking image in the mind.
    MEIOSIS

    A.Hyperbole
    ex: His head is bigger than a
    mountain.
    All the perfume of
    Arabia cannot take away her
    body odor.
    I am so thirsty that I can
    drink all the water in Atlantic
    Ocean.
    B. Simile
    ex: He is as strong as lion.
    The Nile and Nyaza
    lay like two twins.

    Clothes wave like


    tattered flags.
    C. Metaphor:
    Ex: He is a palm tree.
    Ojo is a lion.
    I am the squirrel teeth,
    cracked the riddle of the palm
    The pelting march
    Metaphor has elements:
    Tenor: It is the idea being
    expressed
    Vehicle: It is the medium or
    image employed in expressing
    the idea.
    Ex: Lion is the vehicle while
    strength of the lion is the tenor
    (idea expressed)
    D. Personification:
    Ex: The sun smiles on the earth.
    The wind is friendly
    tonight.
    Death knocks at his
    door.
    The wind whistles by.
    E. Euphemism
    Ex: The man passed away.
    Jacob got Okiemute laid
    Each day a weary pony
    dropped
    Each afternoon a human
    skeleton collapsed
    F. Apostrophe
    Ex: Death be not
    proud (John
    Donne)
    Oh JAMB why
    do you treat me
    like this!
    G. Synecdoche
    Ex: All hands on deck
    He is a mender of soles
    He has many mouths to feed
    We need ten hands.
    Allusion
    oLiterary Allusion- reference to other
    literature books
    oBiblical Allusion- reference to events in
    the bible.
    Symbolism
    Ex: In her womb from east to west,
    Big volcano cough and blink
    Belching streams of liquid fuel
    Figures of Thought

    These are also literary devices employed by mostly


    poets to convey their messages in a more aesthetic
    form.
    A. Metonymy
    Ex: My boss employs anything in
    skirt.
    Crown gives up the ghost.
    The pen is mightier than the
    sword.
    B. OXYMORON
    Ex: I have a bitter sweet experience
    Pregnant Virgin
    An open Secret
    C. PARADOX
    Ex: The child is the father of the man.
    More haste less speed
    The more you look, the less you see
    D. Antithesis
    Ex: Prosperity doth best discover vice
    But adversity doth best discover virtue.
    Figures of Sound
    ◦ ALLITERATION
    Ex: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
    peppers
    o ASSONANCE
    Ex: a fat cat sat on the mat
    o CONSONANCE
    Ex: pitter patter butter
    o ONOMATOPEIA
    Ex: crash, buzz, hum, tick-tock
    o REPITITION
    Ex: Man has ceased to be man
    Man has become beast
    Man has become prey
    THANK
    YOU!

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