Poetic+Devices

Hyperbole - A really big exaggeration. He is loud as a bomb.

Alliteration - The use of using a lot of words starting with the same letter in a sentence. The big blooded broad blade.

Rhythm and Rhyme - Words that sound similar and used to create a certain beat. One, two, Buckle my shoe. Three, four, Shut the door.

Metaphor - A strong comparison of two things without the use of like or as. His eyes are lasers.

Analogy - The phrases or words that come out of a metaphor. His eyes are lasers. Analogy = His eyes are burning, his eyes are intense, his eyes are piercing.

Repetition - The repetition of words or phrases throughout the poem. I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know.

Personification - Giving an inanimate object human traits. The wind screamed in her face.

Allusion - A short reference of person, place, event, or anything. - She is not Cinderella.

Oxymoron - Putting two contradictory words together. - Pretty ugly.

Euphemism - A way to express words or phrases that would offend someone for example - He kicked the bucket or he's six feet under,

Imagery - Language that can be relates to the five senses. The crisp yellow french fry that such came out of its bath of sizzling oil reeks of the smell of rotten potato but tastes like the regular french fry.

Irony - Something that is totally contradicting. Something happening that you'd expect to happen doesn't happen but the exact opposite does. - He shot the gun at the gorilla but instead of killing him the bullet rebounded off the gorilla's restraints and the bullet it pierced his heart.

Malapropism - Misusing words by what they sound like. "...she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of Nile." [alligator]

Onomatopoeia - A word that sound like a sound when said - BAM SMASH TINGLE SCREECH

Satire - Something that targets something that is useless or ideas that people can "attack" to make people laugh.

SImile - A comparison using like or as. He eats like a pig.

Symbol - Something that represents something else. The skull and cross bones meant death.

Theme - General idea of the story. The theme of Harry Potter is fantasy.

1. I have a million things to do today. Hyperbole

Alliteration 3. That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly Oxymoron 4. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos. Alliteration Simile Euphemism
 * 1) Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.
 * 1) The water is like the sun."
 * 1) Praying to the porcelain altar

Hyperbole
 * 1) I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die

Metaphor
 * 1) He has the heart of a lion

9.Health food makes me sick. Oxymoron 10.You are the sun in my sky Metaphor

11.A host of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Imagery

12.His belt was a snake curling around his waist Metaphor 13.Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand alliteration euphemism 15.We have to believe in free will. We have no choice irony 16.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drinkI w IRONY
 * 1) Wardrobe malfunction

17.Collateral damage euphemism 18.Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping. alliteration 19. Running faster than the speed of light. hyperbole 20.Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way, / They stretched in never-ending line / Along the margin of a bay imagery

21.He was a man of great statue malapropism 22. We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest. malapropism Onomatopoeia
 * 1) Red rooster says, "Cockadoodle do doo"

> Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia metaphor
 * 1) ... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
 * 1) And murmuring of innumerable bees.
 * 1) A riverboat shall be my horse.
 * 1) The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

malapropism simile
 * 1) O My Luve's like a red, red rose,

29. 'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. ... (1–8) Satire > You get into it and then you never > want to stop simile
 * 1) Hockey is like reading