Poetic+Devices

__Hyperbole - a figure of speech that is an exaggeration, Like "I nearly died laughing"__ __Alliteration -__repetition of the leading consonant sound in each word throughout a sentence or a phrase. Like "peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." __Rhythm & Rhyme. Rhythm is__ a movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent Rhyme is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. __Metaphor i__s a comparison between two things as if they were the same. Like " His marrige was a noose around his neck " __Analogy__ is a comparison of certain similarities between things which are otherwise unlike. " a cap is a bottle as a lid to a jar" __Repetitioni s__ repeating, or using same thing again and again "but but but but" __Personification__ The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman "the wind howled" __Allusion__ is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art " this homework is interfering with my pursit of hapiness." __Oxymoron A figure of speech that compares two condatricty terms. "icy hot"__ __Euphemism__ is a word or series of words which replaces sad, unpleasant or shocking ideas with softer and nicer expressions "departure from life" __Imagery__ Visually descriptive or figurative language "In our kitchen, he would bolt his orange juice (squeezed on one of those ribbed glass sombreros and then poured off through a strainer) and grab a bite of toast (the toaster a simple tin box, a kind of little hut with slit and slanted sides, that rested over a gas burner and browned one side of the bread, in stripes, at a time), and then he would dash, so hurriedly that his necktie flew back over his shoulder, down through our yard, past the grapevines hung with buzzing Japanese-beetle traps, to the yellow brick building, with its tall smokestack and wide playing fields, where he taught." __Irony__ The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. " The procrastinators meeting has been postponed" __Malapropism__ a type of humor when a character uses a wrong, but similar word.**Michelangelo painted the Sixteenth Chapel** __Onomatopoeia__ The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named "cuckoo" __Satire__ The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity __Simile__ is when you compare the characteristics of two things by using like or as. " life is like a rolercoaster" __Symbol a__ item that represents something else, like a house in a story could represent saftey __Theme The lesson or__ idea of the story, liike, life is hard or something.