Poetic Devices

Hi everyone!

I have just finished my literature assignment. It’s kind of bored, but exciting. We have to analyze the poem of the primary student. Well, since we had the wonderful 3 months’ school break, I almost forgot what the poetic devices in the literary elements are. Huh, it’s kind of scary to have no preparation for this new semester. I hope I’ll get all the energy and spirit to study and to change my behavior. Plus, I still remember what has my previous lecturer at UiTM Lendu said to us in “Reading” class, which is, “Learning is a change of behavior”. So I wish to change my behavior through learning.
So, back to our topic, I think I would like to have a revision of all the poetic devices today.

Firstly, one of the poetic devices is alliteration.

- Alliteration is a device which involves the repetition of initial consonant sounds to produce a rhythmical, usually-musical effect.
For example, ‘bread is baking’ and ‘morning moo’.

Other than that, is assonance.
-Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, without regard for the following sounds.
The example will be ‘… gobble quack and cackle, tomtit twitter from the bird-ounced boughs…’.

Then, we also have onomatopoeia, the formation of words which echo the sounds that they describe. For instance, ‘crow caw’ and ‘bull bellow’.

After that, we also learn about similes and metaphors.
- A simile asks us to picture one thing as being similar to another, and uses the word ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’ to create the linkage in our minds.
For example, ‘as proud as a peacock’ and ‘as sick as a dog’.
Meanwhile, the metaphor takes us one step further than the simile. Instead of asking us to picture one thing as being like another, we are asked to picture one thing as being another. It can be shown by this sentence; ‘she had nerves of steel’.

Hence, I hope that the revision today can help us enrich our knowledge in literature. That’s all for today. Tata!