Poetic+Devices

__Examples of Poetic Devices__
// **Hyperbole - ** exaggeration or overstatement. // // -"I told you a thousand times!" //

Rhythm & Rhyme - //a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. //** -//"A sunshiny shower, Won't last an hour.//"
 * Alliteration - the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. **** // -" ////Dusk demands daylight" //  **
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 * Metaphor - comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as as in a [|simile]. **** //-"Time is a thief"// **

Repetition - ** Same word is repeated over and over for larger emphasis. - **//"Leaping // //higher, higher, higher," // **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Analogy - the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> -" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">S // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">urfs are to a king as earth is to the sun" //
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//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-style: normal;">**Personification -** // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">giving human qualities to animals or objects. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">"The breeze was whistling." //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Onomatopoeia - ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">is a word that imitates the sound it represents. also imitative harmony **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Poof!" // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Satire - ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Animal Farm" // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal;"> - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;"> It is a **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">satire **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;"> of the Russian Revolution

Oxymoron - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">putting two contradictory words together. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Found missing" // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

Malapropism - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"It is beyond my apprehension." // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

Euphemism - ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">" // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kick the bucket" // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

Allusion - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">//"I am no Prince Hamlet"// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

Allegory - **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">a form of extended [|metaphor], in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">//"Young Goodman Brown"// by Nathaniel Hawthorne