Poetic Devicefrom poem ozymandias

Ozymandias

is poetic device??device???

What

Poetic devices are plans or methods of arrangements of words which can assist the writer in developing cogent expressions that are appealing to his/her readers.

Types of

Poetic Devices

in the poem

Ex. Two vast and trunk less  legs cold command The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. boundless and bare lone and level sands stretch

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. A somewhat looser definition is that it is the use of the same consonant in any part of adjacent word.

AlliterationThe use of

Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. It may also be a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between the appearance and the reality.

IronyThe use of

Ex. Look upon my works so mighty & despair nothing beside remains

Hyperbole, derived from Greek word meaning “over-casting” is a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis. It is a device that we employ in our day-to-day speech. For instance, when you meet a friend after a long time, you say, “Ages have passed since I first saw you.

HyperboleThe use of

Ex. Kings of Kings

Anastrophe is a form of literary device where in the order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged. In standard parlance

and writing the adjective comes before the noun but when one is employing an anastrophe the

noun is followed by the adjective.

Anastrophe

Ex. Well those passions read

A synecdoche is a literary devices that uses a part of something to refer to the whole. It is

somewhat rhetorical in nature, where the entire object is represented by way of a faction of it or a faction of the object is

symbolized by the full.

  

The use of

SynecdocheEx.    a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown   And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

Thank You.

Rohan Chakraborty

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