Poetic+Devices

__** Terms: **__ - __Hyperbole__ - A n extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. **Ex.** "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."

- __Alliteration__ - Alliteration is the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words such as tongue twisters. **Ex. In cliches:** "Sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy." **Words worth**: "And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind."

- __Rhythm and Rhyme__ - Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat... Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. **Ex.** "Go/show/glow/know/though."

- __Metaphor__ - Is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. **Ex.** "Life is a journey."

- __Analogy__ - Is a likeness or similarity between things (a subject and an analog) that are otherwise unlike. **Ex.** "Hot is to cold as fire is to ice."

- __Repetition__ - The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.

- __Personification__ - A description of an object as being a living person or animal.

- __Allusion__ - Is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art.

- __Oxymoron__ - Is a fig ure of speech that combines contradictory terms. **Ex**. “Cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly" or "hot ice."

- __Euphemism__ - A commonly used term used to express a certain idea without bluntly declaring that idea. **Ex.** "He kicked the bucket"

- __Imagery__ - Figurative description or illustration.

- __Irony__ - Is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is mean. **Ex.** "A fine thing indeed!" he muttered to himself."

- __Malapropism__ - Is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. **Ex.** "He was a man of great statue."

- __Onomatopoeia__ - Is a word that imitates the sound it represents, also imitative harmony. **Ex.** "splash, wow, gush, kerplunk."

- __Satire__ - A literary term used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack. **Ex.** The movie "Scary Movie."

- __SImile__ - Is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as. **Ex.** "He eats like a pig."

- __Symbol__ - <span style="color: #008080; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. <span style="color: #008080; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> **Ex.** "The bird of night" (owl is a symbol of death)

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">- __Theme__ - <span style="color: #008080; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Is the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express.

<span style="color: #008080; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> 1. I have a million things to do today. <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px;"> Hyperbole

<span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px;"> Alliteration
 * 1)  Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.

<span style="color: #262626; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> 3. That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Oxymoron 4. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos. Alliteration Simile Euphemism
 * 1)  The water is like the sun."
 * 1)  Praying to the [|porcelain] [|alta]r

7. I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die Hyperbole 8. He has the heart of a lion Metaphor 9. Health food makes me sick. Oxymoron

10. You are the sun in my sky Metaphor

11.A host of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Imagery 12.His belt was a snake curling around his waist <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 10.0px; text-indent: -10.0px;"> Metaphor

13.Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Alliteration


 * 1) <span style="color: #262626; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Wardrobe malfunction - Euphemism

<span style="color: #262626; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> 15.We have to believe in free will. We have no choice <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px;"> Irony

16.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink Irony ant to die young at a ripe old age

17.Collateral damage <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Euphemism 18.Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping. <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Alliteration

19. Running faster than the speed of light. Hyperbole

20.Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way, / They stretched in never-ending line / Along the margin of a bay Imagery

21.He was a man of great statue Malapropism

22. We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest. Malapropism

Onomatopoeia
 * 1)  Red rooster says, "Cockadoodle do doo"

> Onomatopoeia Metaphor Malapropism
 * 1)  ... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
 * 1)  And murmuring of innumerable bees. - Onomatopoeia
 * 2)  A riverboat shall be my horse.
 * 1)  The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Simile/Repetition
 * 1)  O My Luve's like a red, red rose,

29. 'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. ... (1–8) <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Satire > You get into it and then you never > want to stop Simile
 * 1)  Hockey is like reading