poetic technique
Literary device usage
Poetic technique refers to the formal devices and methods poets use to create effects beyond literal meaning.
This includes sound patterns like rhyme, meter, and alliteration; figurative language like metaphor and simile; and structural choices like line breaks and stanza forms.
A poet's technique shapes how a poem sounds, moves, and resonates: Her technique is spare but devastating.
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- alliterationMatching initial consonants
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- caesuraPause within a line
- meterDevice that measures usage
iambic pentameter · assonance · personification · pathetic fallacy · cacophony · euphony · paradox · rhyme scheme · internal rhyme · slant rhyme · metaphor · extended metaphor · synecdoche · hyperbole · volta · parallelism · spondee · simile
poetic techniqueprose style
Writer's characteristic expression
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