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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!