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Poetry Literary Dev.
Literary devices used in poetry and song writing.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anaphora | Lines that start the same but end differently |
| Caesura | A natural pause or break in a line that gives the speaker or singer a quick breath |
| Enjambment | A line that ends abruptly and continues and makes sense on the next line |
| Synaesthesia | A mix of sensory details that normally would be misapplied such as applying hearing to visuals (ex. "A loud looking pen.") |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds that don't necessarily have to be at the beginning |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds that aren't limited to the beginning of words and appear at the beginnings, middles, or ends of words |