Poetic+Devices

__Hyperbole:__ Exaggerated. "I have told you a million times, to clean your room." __Alliteration:__When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or word. "Rabbits running over roses." __Rhythm & Rhyme__: a paragraph with Rhythm and rhyme meaning 2 or more words that sound the same or have the same endings. One two, get kicked out of school, three four, snort some more, five six need my fix, seven eight it feels to late.

__Metaphor : __ A figure of speech which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. "The streets were a furnace." __Analogy__: a similarity between like features of two things, on which comparison may be based "This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs, any questions?" __Repetition__: T he act of repeating; repeated action, performance,production, or presentation. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. __Personification__: inanimate object or abstraction is given human abilities or qualities. "The little dog laughed." __Allusion__: an indirect reference to someone or something.

She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden**.** __Oxymoron:__ a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous,seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “tomake haste slowly.” "Military intelligence." __Euphemism__: the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression forone thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. "Mr.Prince we we'll see you when you get back from the image enhancement camp." __Imagery__:" pictorial images, used in writing." I saw the little drops of dew on the tip of the leaf. __Irony__: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might havebeen, expected. "Titanic is and unsinkable ship." __Malapropism__: an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. "He is the very pine-apple of politeness." __Onomatopoei a __ : The use of words that imitate sounds or objects.

My moms pot went BANG! __Satire__: <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">t he use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Weekend Update” from Saturday Night Live." <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__Simile__: A word compared using like or as. "Your eyes are as blue as a summer sky." <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__Symbol__: something used for or regarded as representing something else. "Natures first green is gold." <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">__Theme:__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">A topic of discourse or discussion "Racial stereotypes blind you to reality."