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    The document defines 10 common poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, metaphor, simile, enjambment, personification, oxymoron, and hyperbole. It provides examples for each device to illustrate how they are used in poetry, such as using repeating consonant sounds in "withering winds" for alliteration or comparing two unlike things without "like" or "as" in "slower than a garden snail, faster than a cunning fox" for metaphor.

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    The document defines 10 common poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, metaphor, simile, enjambment, personification, oxymoron, and hyperbole. It provides examples for each device to illustrate how they are used in poetry, such as using repeating consonant sounds in "withering winds" for alliteration or comparing two unlike things without "like" or "as" in "slower than a garden snail, faster than a cunning fox" for metaphor.

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    The document defines 10 common poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, metaphor, simile, enjambment, personification, oxymoron, and hyperbole. It provides examples for each device to illustrate how they are used in poetry, such as using repeating consonant sounds in "withering winds" for alliteration or comparing two unlike things without "like" or "as" in "slower than a garden snail, faster than a cunning fox" for metaphor.

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    Poetic Devices

    1 Alliteration
    Having the same consonant sounds, occur close together in a series.
    Eg: withering winds. (w)

    2 Assonance
    Repeat of vowel sounds.
    Eg: Men sells the wedding bells. (e)

    3 Onomatopoeia
    Words imitating natural sounds.
    Eg: meowing, roaring, splash, etc

    4 Repetition
    Phrases or words repeating to give emphasis.
    Eg: Water! Water! Everywhere.
    Not a single drop to drink.

    5 Metaphor
    Comparing without ‘like’ or ‘as’.
    Eg: slower than a garden snail, faster than a cunning fox.

    6 Simile
    Comparing with ‘as’ or ‘like’.
    Eg: slow like a garden snail, as fast as a fox.

    7 Enjambment
    Continuation of a line to the next without a comma or a full stop.
    8 Personification
    Human attributes given to animals or inanimate objects.
    Eg: murmuring fan, wears a coat of fur.

    9 Oxymoron
    Two opposite ideas combined as one.
    Eg: open secret, tragic comedy.

    10 Hyperbole
    Exaggeration.
    Eg: He weighs like an elephant.

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