Poetic+Devices

__Poetic Devices - Definitions__

**Hyperbole** : d- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally //ex. I just walked a thousand miles.//

//ex. Family Guy uses satire to create humor, and so do many other shows like The Onion.//
 * Satire** : d- a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule

//ex. apt alliteration's artful aid//
 * Alliteration** : d- the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group

//ex. The cow went mooo.//
 * Onomatopoeia** : d- the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent

//ex. This song has a good rhythm.//
 * Rhythm** : d- movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like

//ex. I like to rhyme, I do it all the time; tomorrow I'm turning 9.//
 * Rhyme** : d- verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines

//ex. Jumbo Shrimp Dark Sunshine Summer Night//
 * Oxymoron** : d- a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect

//ex. Juliet is the Sun She ran like the wind//
 * Metaphor** : d- a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

//ex.// //What a terrible cat's after me!//
 * Malapropism** : d- an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound

//ex.// //the analogy between the heart and a pump//
 * Analogy** : d- a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based

//ex. To pass away vs. to die//
 * Euphemism** : d- the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt

//ex.// //Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn....//  **Allusion** : d- a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication  //ex.//  //I am no Prince Hamlet.//
 * Repetition** : d- Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern

// ex. The trees nodded in agreement. // 
 * Personification** : d- the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions

 //ex. Aesop – Fables Plato – The Republic (Plato's allegory of the cave)//
 * Allegory** : d-a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal