Poetic+Devices

__Hyperbole__ - A hyperbole is a figure of speech that is an exaggeration. ex - "I'm so hungry I could eat a fridge" __Alliteration__ - When two or more consecutive words begin with the same letter. ex - "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." __Rhythm & Rhyme__ - Rhythm: A movement with uniform recurrence of beat or accent. ex - percussion in a song has to have rhythm. Rhyme: a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. ex - Roses are red, violets are blue, candy is sweet, and you are too. __Metaphor__ - When two things are compared without using like or as. ex - "He is my hero!" __Analogy__ - A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification __Repetition__ - the action of repeating something. In poetry, if a word or series of words is repeated, you know that it is important. ex - in Nova's poem Apartment on Austin, she repeats "Four fingers sangria, two gin, two tonic, and one lemon juice." __Personification__ -  Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. ex - "The wind howled that night..."  __Allusion__ - a literary term that refers to a reference in one literary work to another literary work. ex - It has rained so long, it seems as though it has rained for 40 days and nights. (This is reference to Noah's Arc which is a well-known event.) __Oxymoron__ - a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory terms. ex - deafening silence, living dead, pretty ugly. __Euphemism__ - A euphemism is a word or series of words which replaces sad, unpleasant or shocking ideas with softer and nicer expressions. ex - "His driving could use some improvement" (instead of "His driving sucks"). __Imagery__ - visually descriptive language. ex - "The room was beautifully decorated with bookcases that surrounded the room. The table was draped with a delicate tablecloth and it was set with the finest china I had seen." __Irony__ - The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. ex - in the story we read called The Most Dangerous Game, the hunter becomes the hunted. __Malapropism__ - an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously. ex - "My children always like to ride the casserole when they go to the park." __Onomatopoeia__ - a word that is used to describe a sound. ex - meow, honk, boom, crash, etc __Satire__ - The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, deriding voice, folly, etc. ex - The songs of Weird Al Yankovic, Saturday Night Live, The movie Scary Movie __Symbol__ - a symbol is something that represents an idea. ex - in the story we read Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, the rose and the butterfly represent the Widow Wycherly and how beauty doesn't last forever. __Theme__ - A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition. ex - "the best things in life, are the ones that are free."