Poetic+devices

**Poetic devices**
 __Hyperbole-__ Is when you use an exaggeration in speech, to express something/make the reader understand better.

 __Alliteration-__ Is the repetition of the initial sound, the first letter, it is repeated in the same sentence or paragra ph.

 __Rhythm & Rhyme-__ A pattern of words, usually with the same type of ending, with sounds that are alike.

 __Metaphor-__ A metaphor is when two things are compared to each other, they basically say one thing is like another thing, but without using like or as.

__Analogy-__ Is basically a similarity between two unlike things.

 __Repetition-__ Is when you repeat something over again.

 __Personification-__ Personification is giving human traits to inanimate objects.

 __Allusion-__ Is when the writer uses references from things, or mentions them like religion, some examples of this are people, an event, history, etc.

 __Oxymoron-__An oxymoron is when two contradicting words are put together.

 __Euphemism-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Is when the author takes out offensive material, and puts an expression in its place. This is usually to try and satisfy the readers.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Imagery-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Imagery is when the author uses poetic devices, like metaphors and similes to make the reader feel like they are in the place described in the book, or to help them imagine it better.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Irony-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">﻿ Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. Three kinds of irony: 1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else. 2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. 3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Malapropism-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Malapropism is when a word is used in the wrong way, or when a word is used that starts the same as the proper one, this is usually used to create a comedic effect.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Onomatopoeia-__ Onomatopoeia is a word trying to imitate a sound, like splash.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Satire-__ Satire is when the author/poet makes fun of human weaknesses, their objective is usually to change this.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Simile-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A comparison of two unlike things using like, and as.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Symbol-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">A symbol is using something/doing something to try and get the reader to understand its hidden meaning.

<span style="color: #000000; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Theme-__ <span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Theme is a basic idea that the author tries to get the reader to understand, sometimes which the whole story is based on, for example the theme of Harry Potter is death.

<span style="color: #a200ff; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> 1. I have a million things to do today. <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 16.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px;"> Hyperbole

<span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px;"> Alliteration
 * 1)  Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.

<span style="color: #262626; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> 3. That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Oxymoron 4. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos. Alliteration Simile Euphemism
 * 1)  The water is like the sun."
 * 1)  Praying to the [|porcelain] [|alta]r

7. I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die Hyperbole 8. He has the heart of a lion Metaphor 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 <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 10.0px; text-indent: -10.0px;"> Metaphor

13.Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Alliteration


 * 1) <span style="color: #262626; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; decimal margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Wardrobe malfunction - Euphemism

<span style="color: #262626; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> 15.We have to believe in free will. We have no choice <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 18.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px;"> Irony

16.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink Irony ant to die young at a ripe old age

17.Collateral damage <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> Euphemism 18.Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping. <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px;"> 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 Metaphor Malapropism
 * 1)  ... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
 * 1)  And murmuring of innumerable bees. - Onomatopoeia
 * 2)  A riverboat shall be my horse.
 * 1)  The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Simile/Repetition
 * 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) <span style="color: #d90b00; font: 11.0px Andale Mono; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> Satire > You get into it and then you never > want to stop Simile
 * 1)  Hockey is like reading