Poems of the Decade - Literary Device Identifier

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"broad belly wobble"

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"broad belly wobble"

Alliteration (Consonance) - 'Eat Me' by Patience Agbabi

"she screamed like a woman in terrible fear"

Simile - 'Giuseppe' by Roderick Ford

"the chainsaw seethed"

Personification - 'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass' by Simon Armitage

"Sees how she's passed"

Sibilance - 'The Deliverer' by Tishani Doshi

"bumping into walls like a dodgem"

Bathos - 'On Her Blindness' by Adam Thorpe

"comment - on a Post-it - or a tiny stowaway"

Caesura - 'The Furthest Distances I've Travelled' by Leonita Flynn

"babbling our lingoes"

Onomatopoeia - 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' by Daljit Nagra

"and he is giving me no options
in the guise of countless alternatives"

Oxymoron - 'Please Hold' by Ciaran O'Driscoll

"I shan't cloud your morning"

Homophone - 'To My Nine-Year-Old Self' by Helen Dunmore

"My body is their marriage register.
I re-enact their wedding with my hands."

End-stopped lines - 'Genetics' by Sinéad Morrissey