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Poetic Devices - Porphyria's Lover

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  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 5-9
    Answer to include at least one: punctuation, Porphyria's effect on the narrator
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 18-20
    Answer to include at least one: repetition, her actions
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 21-25
    Answer to include at least one: punctuation, foreshadowing, Porphyria's inability to be with him
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 14-17
    Answer to include at least one: punctuation, repetition, her actions
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 26-29
    Answer to include at least one: murmured, her actions, his lack of confidence in her
  • What poetic effect is used here? What is the effect? Lines 1-4
    Answer to include at least one: personification, pathetic fallacy, setting the tone
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 56-60
    Answer to include at least one: granted her wish, imagery, God
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 43-51
    Answer to include at least one: unreliable narrator, simile of a bee, no sin committed
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 30-35
    Answer to include at least one: punctuation, realisation, his decision to murder her
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 36-42
    Answer to include at least one: punctuation (caesura), irony, repetition, matter of fact
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 10-13
    Answer to include at least one: enjambment, the storm, her attitude
  • What poetic device is used here? What is the effect? Lines 52-55
    Answer to include at least one: objectifying, delusional narrator, he feels that he has done her a favour