Poetic+devices


 * Hyperbole: O bvious and intentional exaggeration. That test was worth 500% of my mark!! **


 * Alliteration: When the beginning of words are repeated (almost like a tongue twister!). Orson's owl out-preformed ostriches. **


 * Rhythm & Rhyme: When a poem is presented in a way that makes words sound better or to add emphasis. The cat fed the bat until it got fat to fit the new hat. **


 * Metaphor: Saying that something is what is not. He is the ground I walk on. **


 * Analogy: The image given when a metaphor is used.(from the metaphor above) He is my main supporter. **


 * Repetition: When a sentence or word is repeated to show emphasis. ****Because I do not hope to turn again. ****Because I do not hope. ****Because I do not hope to turn...( ****from 'Ash-Wednesday' by T. S. Eliot). **


 * Personification: Giving non living things human aspects. The rock skipped across the water. **


 * Allusion : ****Reference to a statement, person, a place, or events from: Literature, History, Religion, Mythology, Politics, Sports.** **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"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="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Euphemism: Substituting one word for another to make it "morally correct " or easier to hear. Lose your lunch(vomit). **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses. The green sticky leaf flew soundlessly through the blue sky. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: A contrast between expectation and reality. The procrastinator's meeting has been postponed. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Malapropism: When you greatly misuse a word because it sounds greatly like the word you are trying to say. ****<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest." **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Onomatopoeia: Creating word that have similar sounds to everyday noises. The food sizzled on the frying pan. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oxymoron: A sentence were two opposite words are placed to contradict. Alone in a crowd. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Satire: A work in which human vice or folly is made fun of. ****<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"The county could save a lot of money by requiring homeowners to repaint any fire hydrants in front of their homes." **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: Comparing things with like or as. He was as perfect as a watch. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: A thing that not only stands for itself but something more. The lights turned off (a person died). **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theme: The central message or insight into life revealed through literature. the plot could be a person who hates everyone but then gets helped by one child and stops being so prejudges of all people. The theme could therefore be that you shouldn't hate people before you know them. **