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SIMILE -  A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as "like", "as", or "than", while metaphors create an implicit comparison.

EXAMPLES -
1. They fought like cats and dogs.
2. She is as thin as a rake.
3. I am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as a bone.
4. As sweet as sugar.
5. As common as dirt.

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ANAPHORA

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Gargi Arya 9F
ASSONANCE
Assonance takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds.
For example - “Men sell the wedding bells.”

The same vowel sound of the short vowel “-e-” repeats itself in almost all the words, excluding the definite article. The words do share the same vowel sounds, but start with different consonant sounds – unlike alliteration,  which involves repetition of the same consonant sounds.
EXAMPLE

We light fire on the mountain.

I feel depressed and restle

Go and mow the lawn.

SUNNY DAY FUN POEM
The sun is shining high in the sky.
Ice cream is dripping down my cone.
I smile at my mother's sigh.
Hurry and eat so we can go to the fun zone.

The assonance is so subtle that sometimes it's hard to find. In this poem, shining, high, sky, ice, smile and sigh all have the long i sound. In the last line, so, go and zone all have the long o sound.

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Yuvika Jindal 9D
Poetic devices are 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.

Alliteration:
Alliteration is the repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of multiple words in a series.
EX. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary…”
Apostrophe:
An apostrophe is a poetic device where the writer addresses a person or thing that isn’t present with an exclamation.
EX. O holy night! The stars are brightly shining!
Metaphor:
A metaphor is when a writer compares one thing to another.
EX. The camel is a ship of desert.
Repetition:
Repetition is fairly self-explanatory—it’s the process of repeating certain words or phrases.
Ex. To the swinging and the ringing
of the bells, bells, bells—
Simile:
simile is common poetic device. The subject of the poem is described by comparing it to another object or subject, using 'as' or 'like'.
Ex. – 1.The subject may be 'creeping as quietly as a mouse' or be 'sly, like a fox.'
2. she is as busy as a bee.
Personification:
Personification  is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects, are given human qualities – resulting in a poem full of imagery and description.
Ex. The wind whispered through dry grass.
The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.
Time and tide wait for none.
Imagery:
Poets may also use imagery, or words to create an image in the reader's mind. Imagery is based on our five senses, though visual imagery is used the most. The images contribute to a poem's meaning.
Ex.  In William Wordsworth's poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,' his emotions build with the images he creates.

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9D ,ROLL NO.26
ANAPHORA

Defination-Repetation of a word expression at the beginning of sucessive phrases,clauses,sentence,or verses especially for the poetic effect.
EXAMPLES :
1.My life is my purpose
2.'"I want my money right now,right here all right ?"

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PERSONIFICATION

Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes.

The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.

EXAMPLES:

1.  She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.

2.  The ocean danced in the moonlight.

HERE'S A POEM WITH EXAMPLES OF PERSONIFICATION:

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Poetic Device- Transferred Epithet
Transferred epithet is when an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another. An epithet is a word or phrase which describes the main quality of someone or something. Ex:"I had a wonderful day,The day is not in itself wonderful.

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Poetic device- Allusion
Defination - Allusion is a literary device in which the writer or speaker refers directly or indirectly to a person, event or thing in work of art and literature

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Poetic device - Allusion
Definition- Allusion is a literary device in which the writer or speaker refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature

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A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And no one can talk to a horse of course,

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Personification -  This poetic device is used to give human characteristics  to things and animals .
Ex -Hey , diddle,diddle
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed
To see such sport.
And the dish ran away with the spoon
This poem is filled with personification
1 the dog cannot laugh as it is an animal
2 the dish cannot run with the spoon as it is a non living thing
SO THESE ARE HUMAN QUALITIES GIVEN TO ANIMAL AND THINGS.
Personification is mainly used to make the poem more interesting

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"ALLITERATION"    is a poetic device used when there is an occurance of the same letter with adjacent words

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Pranjal Dixit 9D
Roll no.19
INVERSION

As a literary device, inversion refers to the reversal of the syntactically correct order of subjects, verbs, and objects in a sentence. ... For example, if a poet were writing in iambic pentameter and used a trochee instead of an iamb in one of the lines, that would be considered inversion.

The ocean blue

To the store, I will go.

A cat, fluffy and fat

My teacher, kind and generous

Writes the girl

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Poetic device  ( Enjambment)
Definition- In poetry, Enjambment is an incomplete syntax at the end of a line. The meaning runs from one poetic line to the next without terminal. Punctuation.  Lines without Enjambment are end stopped.
EXAMPLES-. The start of ( The Waste Land) by /T.S Elliot with only 4 and 7 line end stopped
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Licals out of dead land , mixin
Memory and desire stirring
Dull roots with spring rain
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth is forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

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Oxymoron
Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two oppsite ideas are joined to create an effect .
The common oxymoron phrase is a combination of an adjective proceded by a noun.
Example -  Cruel kindness , living death

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REPETITION
Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable.
Short Examples of Repetition in Poetry

If you think you can do it, you can do it.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

POEM BY APJ ABDUL KALAM

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Meet 9F
Roll No. 15
Poetic Device - Hyperbole

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REPETITION
Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words, with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis. It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English

#EXAMPLE
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. "Oh, woeful, oh woeful, woeful, woeful

#POEM
'To the swinging and the ringing

of the bells, bells, bells-

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells, bells, bells-

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REPETITON:-
* It is the repeating of a word or phrase. It is a common rhetorical device used to add emphasis and stress in writing and speech.
*EXAMPLES:-
*A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

And no one can talk to a horse of course
*the art of losing is hard to master
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH7yXFfV7PI

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Aditya Tripathi 9b

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ANAPHORA
It is a literary device in which a word or group of words is repeated.
It is the oldest literary device.
it is used to give an ARTISTIC EFFECT .
POEM-
TIME OF ORIGINATING
TIME OF RUNNING
TIME OF PERISHING
TIME OF RESURRECTING
TIME OF JUDGING
TIME OF FEELING
TIME OF ENJOYING
TIME OF SUFFERING

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poetic device-rhyme
Rhyme is used by poets and occasionally by prose writers to produce sounds appealing to the reader's senses and to unify and establish a poem's stanzaic form.

Example-blue and blow, sun and sand, merry and monkey.

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Roll no.7

Poetic Device- Antithesis
Antithesis is used in writing or speech as a proposition that contrasts with some previously mentioned proposition.
Examples:
1.Man proposes, God disposes.
2.Speech is silver, but silence is gold.

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Transferred Epithet:
Transferred Epithet is an adjective or an adjective phrase qualifying a noun by naming an important characteristic to it.
This poetic device has been widely used in poetry, and is found in many ancient Greek or Latin poems.
Some examples in the poem 'All the World's a stage' are':
1‘shining morning face’ for jolly, chirpy childhood

2 ‘bubble reputation’ for ephemeral nature of fame in the world

3 ‘lean and slippered pantaloon’ for getting old

4 ‘youthful hose…shrunk shank’ (considering Shakespeare's flair for fun) for one's receding virility

5 ‘strange eventful history’ for one’s course of life.

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Poetic device - Similie
Similie is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. It differs from metaphor by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as “like”, “as” etc. It shows a direct comparison.
Common examples of similie-
• Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
•He is as cunning as fox.
•He is as funny as a monkey

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“Alliteration” is a poetic device used when there is an occurrence of the same letter with adjacent words.
Example-:
~ “While I Nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.....”
In the above example there is repetition of letter “N”, so it will come under the category of “Alliteration”.
In many poems personification is used. It is important to verify how to distinguish personification from other poetic devices. We need to consider the first letter of every adjacent words, if those words are same then we can very easily identify it.

Alliteration can be used to make poem more attractive and interesting. It could also modify the poem to be humorous.

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PERSONIFICATION

Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes.

The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings.

EXAMPLES:

1.  She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.

2.  The ocean danced in the moonlight.

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Lakshay yadav 9-f

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Aditya Tripathi

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Alliteration:
1. Alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently.
2. "A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies."
3. Repetitive sounds are the common factor between alliteration, assonance and consonance. Alliteration differs from the other two because it refers specifically to the first consonant sounds in words.
4. "Sun shining,
Green grass growing,
Flowers fragrantly flowing,
Robins returning,
Chickadees chirping,
Bouncing backyard balls,
Swings sky sailing,
Drops dripping down,
Warm winds winding,
Kids’ kites colliding,
Children chasing children,
Playgrounds, parks populated,
Sunny spring shining."

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Allusion
It  is a figure of speech ,in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.It is left to the audience to make direct connection
Example; Donot go thinking you are Robin Hood just cause you took an extra peppermit from candy jar

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Poetic device- Antithesis
Definition- a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
These are examples of antithesis:

"Man proposes, God disposes." - Source unknown.

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong.

"To err is human; to forgive divine." - Alexander Pope.

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Sanjana Sharma
Class-9D
Roll no: 28
•Poetic device - Onomatopoeia
•Definition- The formation of a word from a sound with what is named.
•In other words Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggest the sound that it describes.
For a better understanding here are some examples :
1.Machine noises like horn,beep,clang etc.
2. The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom.
3.It is not usual for a dog to bark when visitors arrive.
➡️ Here are some extracts from poem which gives us a better understanding of onomatopoeia :
🔸Rain Dance Poem 🌦✨
When a poem is born
What is the chance
Of words in rain
Drip drop dance

Ping ting sing
Pitter patter rhyme
Rain dance acceleration
Makes my poem climb

Dribble drench drizzle
Thinking on the fence
Sprinkle splish splash
Bring balance to my sense

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refrain
meaning-stop oneself from doing something
peotic device-Refrain is a verse, a line, a set, or a group of lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections. It originated in France, where it is popular as, refraindre, which means “to repeat.” Refrain is a poetic device that repeats, at regular intervals,

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Poetic Device-METAPHOR Defination-a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Examples-

The snow is a white blanket.

He is a shining star.

Her long hair was a flowing golden river.

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Avika Tyagi 9D

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Poetic Device: Synecdoche

Meaning: A synecdoche  is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.

Example:

The word “bread” refers to food or money, as in “Writing is my bread and butter"

"O no! It is an ever fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken."

The phrase “ever-fixed mark”           refers to a lighthouse.

“Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on          these lifeless things,                          The hand that mocked them.”

“The hand” in these lines refers to the sculptor, who carved the “lifeless things” into a grand statue.

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Poetic Device-Asyndeton
Asyndeton  is a literary scheme in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses.
Examples-
1. I came,I saw,I conquered.
2.Bing,Bong,boom
3. A great silence

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9D ,ROLL NO.26
ANAPHORA

Defination-Repetation of a word expression at the beginning of sucessive phrases,clauses,sentence,or verses especially for the poetic effect.
EXAMPLES :
1.My life is my purpose
2.'"I want my money right now,right here all right ?"

ANAPHORA IS A RETORIC DEVICE.

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.Poetic  device - personification
Definition of personification -
When a human thinks himself as a non - living thing.
EXAMPLES -

The wind howled in the night.

Justice is blind sometimes deaf .

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Dheemaant Bose
Class - 9th D
Roll no. - 13

In poetry, enjambment (/ɛnˈdʒæmbmənt/ or /ɛnˈdʒæmmənt/; from the French enjambement) is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning runs over from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation. Lines without enjambment are end-stopped.

In reading, the delay of meaning creates a tension that is released when the word or phrase that completes the syntax is encountered (called the rejet); the tension arises from the "mixed message" produced both by the pause of the line-end, and the suggestion to continue provided by the incomplete meaning. In spite of the apparent contradiction between rhyme, which heightens closure, and enjambment, which delays it, the technique is compatible with rhymed verse. Even in couplets, the closed or heroic couplet was a late development; older is the open couplet, where rhyme and enjambed lines co-exist.

Enjambment has a long history in poetry. Homer used the technique, and it is the norm for alliterative verse where rhyme is unknown. In the 32nd Psalm of the Hebrew Bible enjambment is unusually conspicuous. It was used extensively in England by Elizabethan poets for dramatic and narrative verses, before giving way to closed couplets. The example of John Milton in Paradise Lost laid the foundation for its subsequent use by the English Romantic poets; in its preface he identified it as one of the chief features of his verse: "sense variously drawn out from one verse into another".

Short Examples of Enjambment

1. I think I had never seen
A verse as beautiful as a flower.

2. Autumn showing off colors slowly
Letting the splendid colors
Flow softly to earth below.

3. The poet labors all his days
To build the beauty in his rhyme.

4. When rain drops are
Exposed to sunlight, even
Colorless become vibrant.

5. Longer days have come,
Cuckoos are here with joyous
Shades of dark green arise!

6. Amongst the bushes and thorns
Beautiful red rose blooms.

7. Breezy blue sky so clear,
So bright and relaxing
That escapes daily toil.

8. The sunlight brightens the horizon
Like the sky lightens a small island.

9. Cold morning time
Ice crystals reflect the rays
Of blazing sunrise.

10. Before the sunrise
A chain of red clouds
And all else is in the darkness.

11. Lovely nature has something to offer
you; so inhale the fresh air
And, beautifully, learn by deciding where to go.

12. Still in their cabins lay the murdered,
But the air is filled with pain
And tearful rain and gusty sighs.

13. The rooms feel mirror reflection
For that glowing face,
The windows were covered
With frost. Outside
Is a world of ice.

14. The moon moved above
The clouds, suspended between
Night and dawn.

15. How beautiful are sunflowers
That yield without difficulty,
Blooming so fully now
In the light of the sun.

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