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Poetic Examples
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Examples from poetry of poetic figures and literary devices #poetry #literature
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“The king of Danes,the Scyldings’ friend, the Breaker-of-Rings, the famed prince,"
EpiPen
Epithet
Epigraph
Epigram
2
"A terrible beauty is born."
Oxymoron
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Epithet
3
the hyacinth purple, Which flung from its bells a sweet peal so delicate, felt like an odour.
Paradox
Alliteration
Assonance
Synesthesia
4
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun. The frumious Bandersnatch!"
Neologism
Syncope
Paraphrase
Epigraph
5
"Whether ’ti
s
nobler in the mind to
s
ufferThe
s
ling
s
and arrow
s
of outrageou
s
fortune"
Consonance
Synethesia
Assonance
Allusion
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“Once upon a midnight
dreary
, while I pondered, weak and
weary
," (that's all one line!)
Enjambment
Internal Rhyme
End Rhyme
Close Rhyme
7
Water, water everywhere,all the boards did shrink;Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink
Irony
Personification
Oxymoron
Synesthesia
8
"They can only shriek, shriek,Out of tune…"
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Metonymy
Assonance
9
"Western wind, when will thou blow,"
Onomatopoeia
Pun
Alliteration
Enjambment
10
"I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree"
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Slant Rhyme
11
"And I will come again, my luve / Though it were ten thousand mile."
Paradox
Couplet
Hyperbole
Understatement
12
must have been about 2 minutes when I assumed that I was killed. And that too was interesting.
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Understatement
Symbolism
13
"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players."
Paradox
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
14
"When I was ten / I wanted a Ken / to marry Barbie"
Image
Metaphor
Illusion
Allusion
15
"the hands of Spring / First plant thee in the watery mould."
Personification
Paradox
Epithet
Oxymoron
16
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?"
Epithet
Dedication
Apostrophe
Epigraph
17
"Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."
Rhyme
Epistrophe
Anaphora
Assonance
18
"There is a garden in her face"
Simile
Understatement
Conceit
Hyperbole
19
"that at my death Thy Son / Shall shine as he shines now,"
pun (paranomasia)
imagism
syncope
coinage
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"That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,"
archaism
Syncope
Syntax
Neologism