Poetic+Devices

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 * 1)  **Hyperbole:** An extereme and obvious exagerration of the truth. **eg:** I would rather die than miss chocolate.
 * 2)  **Alliteration:** The repetion of a single letter which you use to begin your words. **eg:** Darcy the democrat drew dogs and doors to design her default drawer.
 * 3)  **Rhythm & Rhyme:** The flow in which the words fall, allowing the reader to read you poem in a rhymic, almost musical fashion. **eg:** in Flanders' Fields the poppies blow between the crosses row on row.
 * 4) ** Metaphor: ** An example that uses tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing. **eg:** Life is a roller coaster.
 * 5)  **Analogy:** The similarity between two things on which a comparison can be based. **eg:** Granddad had a mind like a steel trap that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
 * 6)  **Repetition:** When the poet writes redundant, unnecessary sentences to mean the same thing as something mentioned in an preceding sentence. **eg:** The dog's fur is short and fluffy. The dog has short, fluffy fur. Short and fluffy fur is something the dog has. (Sounds a lot like Dr. Seuss :D )
 * 7)  **Personification:** When the author gives human-like traits to an inanimate object. **eg:** The wind made the snow dance around the air.
 * 8)  **Allusion:** A figure of speech that refers to an outside person, place, myth, religion etc. **eg:** William Hung got his 15-minutes of fame.
 * 9) **Euphemism:** A word or phrase used as replacement for a crude or offensive word or phrase. **eg:** She simply did what she could to make ends meet; she worked the streets as a second job.
 * 10) **Imagery:** Descriptive sentences used to create an image in the reader's mind. **eg:** The sky was still blue, but threads of red started to peak through behind the clouds, preparing for the sun to set.
 * 11) ** Irony: ** A poetic and literary technique where there is obvious discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of the words. Fun fact, someone is trying to make a backwards question mark an "irony punctuation mark". **eg:** In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet isn't dead, but Romeo thinks she is.
 * 12) **Malapropism:** Kind of like a pun, malapropism is replacing a word in a sentence with one that sounds at least slightly similar but means something entirely different. **eg:**"And the he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision."-Frank Bruno
 * 13) **Onomatopoeia:** A word that is also a sound. **eg:** WHOOSH!
 * 14) **Oxymoron:** When two contradictory terms are used in a sentence. **eg:** Timmy was a faithful atheist.
 * 15) **Satire:** The use of irony or sarcasm. Often a genre; one writes a satirical poem, not a satirical sentence. **eg:** The "I got an F in lunch" short story I wrote in Grade 8, would be an example of a satire.
 * 16)  **Simile: ** A descriptive, comparative sentence using "like" and "as". **eg:** Earth stood hard as iron and water like a stone.
 * 17) **Symbol:** Something that represents an idea or theme in a poem. **eg:** The phonograph in The Portable Phonograph would be an example of a symbol.
 * 18) **Theme:** The broad idea, moral or overall message of the poem. **eg:** The theme in "Identities" was that of misjudgment and stereotyping.