Poetry+devices

Hyperbole  Over exaggeration used for emphasis  I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse  Alliteration  the repetition of a sound at the begining of a series of words Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August

 Rhythm & Rhyme Giving phrases words that rhyme and similar structure. Thirty days hath September,  April, June, and November...

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. "Love is a rose" - Neil Young

Analogy

Reasoning or explaining from parallel cases. A simile is an expressed analogy; a metaphor is an implied one

> (The Partnership for a Drug-Free America)
 * "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Repetition

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage.

> And no one can talk to a horse of course"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personification

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The wind roared and howled

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Allusion

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth." - Barack Obama

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oxymoron

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jumbo shrimp

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Euphemism

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The substitution of an inoffensive term <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"passed away" instead of died.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagery

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"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."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Irony

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Malapropism

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Absurd or humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Well I try to look at the bright side. I guess you could say I'm an internal optometrist."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Onomatopoeia

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">hiss or murmur

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Satire

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A text or performance that uses [|irony], derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> "the onion" videos on youtube are all satirical

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> SImile

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like a G6

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Symbol

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A person, place, action, or thing that represents something other than itself. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The heart is a symbol of love.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Theme

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The main idea of a text, that is expressed directly or indirectly. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Survival is the theme in the show "Survivor"