Poetic+Devices

__Hyperbole__ An exaggeration or overstatement. Example: The trees are so tall that they reach into space.

__Alliteration__ The repetition of initial sounds. Example: The snake slithered slyly past slimy sloths.

__Rhythm & Rhyme__ A pattern of similar sounding words. Example: This little fellow was dressed in yellow.

__Metaphor__ Comparing two unlike things. Example: Friends are like snowflakes, they're beautiful and different.

__Analogy__ Comparison of two pairs. Example: Night is to day as sun is to moon.

__Repetition__ The repeating of words, lines, phrases, or stanzas. Example: I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay.

__Personification__ Giving animals or objects human qualities. Example: Is your fridge running?

__Allusion__ A reference to a person, place, event, or a piece of art. They can be real or ficticious. Example: To act or not to act, that was Ally's dilemma.

__Oxymoron__ A phrase that has two contradictory words Example: jumbo shrimp

__Euphemism__ Substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener. Example: He bit the dust.

__Imagery__ Language used to appeal to any of the five senses. Example: It smelled of the sweetness of a sticky summer day.

__Irony__ Implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. Example: "A fine thing indeed!" he muttered to himself.

__Malapropism__ Act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially the confusion of words that are similar in sound. Example: "He is the very pineapple of politeness!" Where pineapple is supposed to be pinnacle.

__Onomatopoeia__ A word that imatates sound. Example: The leaves went //crunch, crunch, crunch// under my feet.

__Satire__ Used to make fun of human vice or weakness. Example: "Scary Movie"

__Simile__ Comparing two things using like or as. Example: It moved like a fish on dry land.

__Symbol__ Object or action meaning something more thatn its literal meaning. Example: A wedding ring represents the neverending love of the two people joined together.

__Theme__ A theme is an idea or moral about life. Example: The theme of "To Kill a Mockingbird" was the treatment of black people in the south U.S.