Poetic+Devices


 * 1) **Hyperbole: **__An extereme and obvious exagerration of the truth. __**eg:** I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN MISS CHOCOLATE.
 * 2) **Alliteration: **__The repetion of a single letter which you use to begin your words. __**eg:** Darcy the democrat drew dogs and doors to design her default drawer.
 * 3) **Rhythm & Rhyme: **__The flow in which the words fall, allowing the reader to read you poem in a rhymic, almost musical fashion.__ **eg:** in Flanders' Fields the poppies blow between the crosses row on row.
 * 4) Metaphor: __ An example that uses tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing. __ **eg:** Life is a roller coaster.
 * 5) **Analogy: **The similarity between two things on which a comparison can be based. **eg:** Granddad had a mind like a steel trap that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
 * 6) **Repetition: **__When the poet writes redundant, unnecessary sentences to mean the same thing as something mentioned in an preceding sentence.__  **eg:** Lizzie's blue hair is short and blue. Lizzie has short, blue hair. Blue hair is something that Lizzie has. She has blue hair.
 * 7) **Personification: **__ When the author gives human-like traits to an inanimate object. __** eg: ** The wind made the snow dance around the air.
 * 8) **Allusion: **__ A figure of speech that refers to an outside person, place, myth, religion etc. __** eg: ** William Hung got his 15-minutes of fame. ([|Mr Janzen, please watch the whole thing.])
 * 9) **Euphemism: **__ A word or phrase used as replacement for a crude or offensive word or phrase. __** eg: ** She simply did what she could to make ends meet; she worked the streets as a second job.
 * 10) **Imagery: **__ Descriptive sentences used to create an image in the reader's mind. __** eg: ** The sky was still blue, but threads of red started to peak through behind the clouds, preparing for the sun to set.
 * 11) ****<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Irony: ****__ A poetic and literary technique where there is obvious discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of the words. Fun fact, someone is trying to make a backwards question mark an "irony punctuation mark". __** eg: ** In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet isn't dead, but Romeo thinks she is.
 * 12) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Malapropism: **__ Kind of like a pun, malapropism is replacing a word in a sentence with one that sounds at least slightly similar but means something entirely different. __** eg: ** "And the he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision."-Frank Bruno (p.s., that malapropism was not intentional. I <3 professional athletes)
 * 13) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Onomatopoeia: **__ A word that is also a sound. __** eg: ** WHOOSH!
 * 14) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Oxymoron: **__ When two contradictory terms are used in a sentence. __** eg: ** Timmy was a faithful atheist.
 * 15) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Satire: **__ The use of irony or sarcasm. Often a genre; one writes a satirical poem, not a satirical sentence. __** eg: ** The "How to be Popular" paper I wrote to get into Challenge was a satire.
 * 16) ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simile: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  **__ A descriptive, comparative sentence using "like" and "as". __** eg: ** Earth stood hard as iron and water like a stone.
 * 17) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Symbol: **__ Something that represents an idea or theme in a poem. __** eg: ** The phonograph in The Portable Phonograph
 * 18) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Theme: **__ The broad idea, moral or overall message of the poem. __** eg: ** The theme in Twelfth Night is mistaken identity, and the problems that arise from that.