Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements.[1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.[2]
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without the line breaks associated with poetry. However, it makes use of poeticdevices such as fragmentation, compression, repetition, rhyme, metaphor, and...
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at the end of a line; the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped...
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24 January 2013. Bernard Marie Dupriez (1991). A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z. University of Toronto Press. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-8020-6803-3...
"shedding (in a downwards direction)". Tmesis is found as a poetic or rhetorical device in classical Latin poetry, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses. Words...
and in regular speech), and are often found in combination with other poeticdevices. For example, the Madness song "The Sun and the Rain" contains the line...
of speech and the counterpart of anaphora. It is an extremely emphatic device because of the emphasis placed on the last word in a phrase or sentence...
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