Poetic+Devices

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Find definitions and at least one example of the following poetic devices. No Copy and paste. Use your own words!

Hyperbole- Hyperbole is an obvious exggeration of something. **I** **waited for you for a million years.**

Alliteration- Alliteration is a group of words that starts with the same letter in a row.
 * Rabbits running ober roses. **

Rhythm & Rhyme- Rhyme is verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines. Rhythm is movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent.


 * Rain before seven;Clear by eleven.**

Metaphor- A metaphor compares two things without the words like or as. Metaphors are used to illustrate a concept by comparing it to something less abstract.
 * My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that**
 * was protected from the flame.**

Analogy- Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.
 * Nature's first green is gold,**
 * Her hardest hue to hold.**
 * Her early leaf's a flower;**
 * But only so an hour.**
 * Then leaf subsides to leaf.**
 * So Eden sank to grief,**
 * So dawn goes down to day.**
 * Nothing gold can stay.**

Personification- Personaification is adding a human quality to a non-human object.
 * The sun smiles at the sleeping flowers. **

Allusion- Allusion is a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional.
 * "Oh, stop being such a Romeo."**

Euphemism- An euphemism is t he substitution of an inoffensive term.
 * Euphemism for FAT:**
 * chubby, plump, big-boned, chunky, fluffy**

Imagery- Imagery is t he use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
 * Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.**

Malapropism- Malapropism is t he misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
 * He had to use a fire distinguisher.**

Onomatopoeia- Onomatopeoia is t he use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
 * bang! click! buzz!**

Oxymoron- An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
 * sweet and sour**

Satire- Satire is a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
 * "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Simile- Simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, often used with the word //like// or //as.//
 * Your smile is like the sunshine.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Symbol- Symbol is something that represents or stands for something else.
 * In the story " The portable phonograph", the phonograph is the symbol.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Theme- Theme is the idea of the poem, they big idea of what the poem is about.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The theme of the poem " sleep" is mainly about death. **