Poetic+Devices


 * Hyperbole- **An exaggeration ex- The table weighed a ton.


 * Alliteration- **repetition of an initial consonant sound ex- She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore

ex-I saw a cat, He wore a big hat
 * Rhythm & Rhyme- **when the end or final sound of two or more words are identical and has a certain pattern and beat
 * Metaphor- **comparison of unlike things or saying one thing is another ex- It is raining cats.


 * Analogy- ** similarities in different things ex- Nature's first green is gold


 * Repetition- **the repeating of words, phrases or lines ex- Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn....

ex-Wind yells while blowing
 * Personification- **when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do.

ex-Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities
 * Allusion- **a brief reference to a person, event, place, or phrase.

ex- pass away instead of die
 * Euphemism- **Euphemism is the substitution of a soft agreeable expression instead of one that is harsh or unpleasant.

ex-My father lies back and hushed beneath white hospital sheets.
 * Imagery- **The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

ex- Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
 * Irony- **The result of an action or situation is the reverse of what is expected.

ex-First, who think you the most **desertless** man to be constable? meaning deserving
 * Malapropism- **misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.

ex- zip goes the jacket
 * Onomatopoeia- **onomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.

ex-a deafening silence
 * Oxymoron- **A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined

A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. ex- There's no money in poetry Coz poets are the biggest fools
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Satire- **

Penning for the love of it Not demanding what is due

Got to change garbs now And write songs and ad jingles

To sell some color water And lure a billion people

You get paid a pretty fortune And they get peptic ulcers

I'll die a rich jingler Than live a poor poet

ex- Sadness is as happy as laughter
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Simile- **Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as."

an image loaded with significance beyond literal definition ex-The sun got darker - the person is about to die
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Symbol- **

ex- some themes can be about: childhood,love,death,war,friendship ect.....
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Theme- **A theme in poetry is the main idea of the poem and/or the authors' feelings about it.