Poetry Notes on the language and style used in Poems

Comprehensive poetry notes on stylistic devices with illustrations
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Poetry Notes on the language and style used in Poems
The term "style" refers to the medium through which a message is passed to the reader. In poetry, poets employ different stylistic devices to make the poem more interesting, memorable, musical, and enjoyable to the audience or readers.  Language devices in poetry include:  Imagery,  irony,  symbolism Rhetorical Questions Personification Paradox Parallelism Contrast Hyperbole Repetition allusion Juxtaposition Sound patterns in poetry include : Assonance Consonance  Alliteration Ideophones Rhyme Onomatopoeia The use of imagery in poetry The term "imagery" is derived from the word "image." Imagery refers to any device used in a work of art that enables the audience or the readers to form mental pictures of what is being described. In poetry, there are two types of images: 1. Metaphor A metaphor is a direct comparison of two similar objects. For example,  Marie is a peacock (meaning that Marie is proud). My father is a lion (meaning my father is brave). The attac…

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