Exploring Literary Devices in the American and Sudanese Poetry of Altruism

Abstract

This paper investigates the literary devices in the American and Sudanese poetry of altruism. However, it analyzes and compares the literary devices of allusion, antitheses, apostrophe, hyperbole, metaphor, metonymy, personification, pun, simile and synecdoche in the two poetic genres. The results indicate that metaphor dominates the two genres but metonymy is used in the Sudanese poetry of altruism more than in American poetry. The American poetry of altruism uses personification, synecdoche, hyperbole, allusion and apostrophe much more than the Sudanese poetry but it uses antithesis less than the Sudanese does. Simile plays a moderate role in the American and Sudanese poetry of altruism. The literary device of pun does not play any role in the American and Sudanese poetry of altruism.