Friday, October 24, 2008

Poetic devices

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applied to poetry, novels, etc.



- Connotation

-Denotation

-Figures of speech
---simile
---metaphor
---personification
---apostrophe
---hyperbole
---oxymoron

-imagery

-symbolism

-antithesis

-irony

-pun

-------------------------Sounds of language------------------
usually applied only to poetry

-euphony

-cacophony

-alliteration

-rhyme

-onomatopoeia

-assonance

-consonance

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