2019 English - Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices

Metonymy: The use of a linked term to stand in for an object or concept.
E.g: "The pen is mightier than the sword."
E.g: "If we don't get these reports in today, the suits will be after us."

Enjambment: When a sentence, phrase, or thought does not end with the line of poetry.
E.g: "The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquility;" Wordsworth, "Beauteous Evening"
E.g: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and asleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing." Keats, "Endymion"

Satire: Shows foolishness or vice in humans, organizations, or even governments - it uses sarcasm, ridicule, or irony.
E.g: “What’s the use you learning to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right and isn’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
E.g: “There warn’t anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn’t any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it’s cool. If you notice, most folks don’t go to church only when they’ve got to; but a hog is different.”