 all of the devices we commonly associate with poetry in English: meter, binary construction and balanced phrasing, rhyme, assonance and alliteration, conciseness, metaphor, and occasional inverted word order and unusual construction  Yoruba Proverbs - Page 7by Oyekan Owomoyela - 2005 - 502 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Richard M. Dorson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 574 pages
...artistic entities. As artful, and therefore artificial and witty, items of discourse, proverbs use all of the devices we commonly associate with poetry...occasional inverted word order and unusual construction. î ROGER D. ABRAHAMS 120 It is primarily the pronounced effect of balance that produces the witty effect... | |
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