- Most important literary resources used in poetry
- Metaphor
- Epithet
- Comparison
- Hyperbole
- Metonymy
- Synecdoche
- Paradox
- Personification
- Sensory imaging
- Oxymoron
- References
The literary resources of poems are tools used by authors and poets to express feelings, using different words or expressions to name objects or feelings in everyday language.
Poets consider the emotional qualities of words, their musical value, and innovation in the construction of stanzas.
Poetry has an underlying purpose that goes beyond words and seeks to evoke intense feelings in the reader.
To achieve this objective, resources such as metaphor, epithet, comparison, hyperbole, metonymy, personification and sensory images are used, among others.
Most important literary resources used in poetry
Metaphor
It is a rhetorical figure that tries to establish a relationship of similarity between two completely different words. They are built based on three elements: the tenor, the object of which it is spoken, the vehicle, which is what is used to describe the tenor, and the foundation or explanation of the similarity.
Example: "your long golden hair", to say your long blond hair.
Epithet
Literary resource that consists of the use of qualifying adjectives without adding any additional information about the object to which it refers.
Example: "the dark whales will return."
Comparison
By means of this literary resource, a similarity is established between an imaginary object or character with a real one, through the use of the links “how” and “which”.
Example: "red lips like apples"
Hyperbole
Rhetorical figure by means of which a situation or quality of the object that is being talked about is considerably exaggerated, seeking to give greater effectiveness in the emotion that is trying to create.
Example: "Because I look at you and die…" (Mario Benedetti). Exaggeration about the effects of the loved one.
Metonymy
Within poetry, this figure is linked to metaphor, it consists of naming one thing or idea with the name of another, the most common cases being cause and effect relationships and naming a whole on the one hand, between the two concepts there is a proximity relationship.
Example: "The best pen in world literature is William Shakeaspare"
Synecdoche
Rhetorical figure used to name the whole by the parts or vice versa.
Example: "He was only left with five mouths to feed" or "He had thirty springs…"
Paradox
Resource by which phrases that involve a contradiction are used, basically they are thoughts that make sense from the opposite.
Example: "Fire is half cold" (Pablo Neruda).
Personification
It is used to give human qualities to objects.
Example: "the jasmine cry because you are not here…" or "the mist embraced her."
Sensory imaging
They are all the expressions to which an author refers to suggest a meaning, they can be auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory or olfactory.
Example: -Auditives: "the breeze sang a lullaby."
Visuals: "the sun dyed the horizon red…"
Tactile: "her skin was soft like velvet…"
Gustative: "his mouth was delicious like apple…"
Olfactory: "smelled like fresh spring…".
Oxymoron
Resource widely used by poets, which is observed when a noun is modified by an opposite qualifying adjective.
Example: "deafening bustle…"
References
- Mark Flanaga, «What is poetry ?, 2012. Retrieved on December 26, 2017 from thoughtco.com
- Palma, Feliz, «Seventy examples of hyperbole», 2014. Retrieved on December 26, 2017 from jackmoreno.com
- «Resources literary», 2016. Retrieved on December 26, 2017 from edu365.cat