Uncommon #PoeticDevices: Quick Notes For West Bengal #SLST English Revision 2025
Device Definition (Easy) Example
Synecdoche
Part used for whole or whole for part All hands on deck (hands = sailors)
Metonymy
One word replaced with something closely linked
The pen is mightier than the sword
Anaphora
Repetition at beginning of lines/clauses We shall fight… we shall fight…
Epistrophe
Repetition at end of lines/clauses Of the people, by the people, for the people
Chiasmus
Reversal of structure Fair is foul, and foul is fair
Zeugma
One verb/adjective used for two different objects He stole my heart and my wallet
Litotes
Understatement using negative He is not a bad singer
Transferred Epithet
Adjective applied to wrong noun He spent a restless night
Apostrophe
Direct address to absent person/idea/object O Death, where is thy sting?
Enjambment
Continuation of a line into the next without pause
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: / Its loveliness increases…
Caesura
A pause in the middle of a line *To err is human
Paradox Seeming contradiction but true The child is father of the man
Oxymoron
Two opposite words together Sweet sorrow, deafening silence
Polyptoton
Repetition of same root word Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds.
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