Literary (or Poetic) Devices
There are specific tools that a writer can use to create well-written and interesting poetry.
These tools are ways of using words to be more than just simplistic descriptions.
Remember CONNOTATION? This is about knowing that there are layers of meaning to particular words.
Well, literary devices are similar in that they are adding layers of interest or skill or flavour to words and phrases.
We can compile a list of poetic devices that we can then recognize, and/or use in our poetry, as long as we can understand WHAT each one is and WHY it is used.
simile
metaphor
repetition
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
alliteration
consonance
assonance
figurative language
imagery
allusion
archetype
allegory
internal rhyme
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