Poetic+Devices

__** Poetic Devices **__

Hyperbole - is exaggeration or overstatement

Alliteration - the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

Rhythm & Rhyme - a pattern of words that contain similar sounds

Metaphor - the comparison of two unlike things

Analogy - the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship

Repetition - repeating something over and over Personification - is giving human qualities to animals or objects

Allusion - brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art

Imagery - is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
 * Euphemism - **the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener

Irony - an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant

Malapropism - an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously

Onomatopoeia - is a word that imitates the sound it represents

Oxymoron - putting two contradictory words together.

Satire - literary term used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack.

Simile - is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as

Symbol - using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

Theme - the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express