Poetic+Devises

__Poetic Devices:__

Hyperbole: An exageration. "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"

Alliteration:Is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. "The lady lounges lazily"

Rhythm and Rhyme: A pattern of words that contain similar sounds. "A sunshiny shower won't last an hour"

Metaphor: The comparison with two unlikely things without the "like"s or "to be". "Depression is another kind of fire."

Analogy: Is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationships. "hot is to cold as fire is to ice or hot:cold::fire:ice

Repetition: Repeating the same word or phrase. The what are you fighting for poem used it many times.

Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects. "the stars danced across the sky."

Satire: A literary tone 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.

onomatopoeia: a word that imitates the sound it represents. also imitative harmony. "splash, gush, kerplunk"

Oxymoron: is putting two contradictory words together. "seriously joking" "sad joy"

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

Euphemism: The substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend.

Allusion: A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. "the fire started at twelve o'clock in my mother's house"

Allegory: is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself.