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As we've said in class numerous times, in poetry how something is said enhances the meaning of what is being said. For instance when a poet needs to convey a sinister tone or a sinister mood, he would use sibilance to enhance that feeling for the reader. Poems have a large arsenal of devices that affect the sound of the poem. For example a poet will use caesura to emphasize a separation between two ideas or characters by writing them consecutively, but placing a caesura between them. The way a line is said and the way that it sounds will dramatically affect its connotation. There is a sound for every type of emotion and poems take advantage of those different sounds in order to convey those tones and moods more effectively.