Poetic+Devices

Alliteration - In language, alliteration refers to repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases. Example : Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through the turquoise tide.

Allusion - Allusion is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. Example : Stephen Vincent Benet's story "By the Waters of Babylon" contains a direct reference to Psalm 137 in the Bible.

Analogy - Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find. Example : The water was burning cold.

Euphemism - Euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener; or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker.

Imagery - Imagery is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. Example : Her blue eyes were as bright as the sun, blue as the sky, and her skin was like silk.

Irony - Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. Example : "A fine thing indeed!" he muttered to himself.

Hyperbole - Hyperbole is exaggeration or overstatement. Example : She is as skinny as a twig.

Malapropism - Malapropism is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

Metaphor - Metaphor the comparison of two unlike things, without using the words, "like" or "as". Example : He is a pig.

Personification - Personification is giving human qualities to animals or objects. Example : The wind howled.

Onomatopoeia - Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents. Example : Thunk, thud, smash, pow, bop, etc.

Oxymoron - Oxymoron is putting two contradictory words together. Example : Burning cold, hot ice, cold sun, etc.

Rhythm and Rhyme - Rhyme is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. Rhythm: The dictionary tells us it is "a movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent." Example :Rhyme - One, two, Buckle my shoe. Three, four, Shut the door.

Repetition -Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern in a poem. Example : Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again

Satire - 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. Example : Watch The the impotence of proofreading. By Taylor Mali

Simile - Simile is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as. Example : He eats like a pig.

Symbol - Symbol is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. Example : The bird of night.

Theme - Theme is the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express.

1. I have a million things to do today.

Hyperbole Alliteration
 * 1)  Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.

 Oxymoron
 * 1)  That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly

4. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos. Alliteration Simile Satire x
 * 1)  The water is like the sun."
 * 1)  Praying to the [|porcelain] [|alta]r


 * 1)  I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die

Hyperbole

Metaphor 9. Health food makes me sick. Analogy x   10. You are the sun in my sky x
 * 1)  He has the heart of a lion

11.A host of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. x   12.His belt was a snake curling around his waist Personification x   13.Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand  Alliteration
 * 1)  Wardrobe malfunction

 15.We have to believe in free will. We have no choice

16.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink I w   Alliteration and Repition x young at a ripe old age

17.Collateral damage Allusion x   18.Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping. Alliteration Hyperbole
 * 1)  Running faster than the speed of light.

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

Rhyme x

21.He was a man of great statue

x   x
 * 1)  We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest.

23. Red rooster says, "Cockadoodle do doo" Otomatopeia > Personification x   Personification x    Metaphor
 * 1)  ... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
 * 1)  And murmuring of innumerable bees.
 * 1)  A riverboat shall be my horse.
 * 1)  The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

x   28. O My Luve's like a red, red rose,

x   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)   Rhyme x

> You get into it and then you never > want to stop Simile
 * 1)  Hockey is like reading