Poetic+Devices

Definitions
Hyperbole: Obvious and intentional exageration. Example, "Alex, I've told you a million times! "

Alliteration: Alliteration is when multiple words in a sentence begin with the same sound or letter. Example: The dumb dog drowned.

Rhythm & Rhyme: When a sentane has rythem, the words flow together like a song. Rhyme is when two or more words have the same sound at the end of the word. "She sells sea shells by the sea shore"

Metaphor: A metaphor is comparison between two objects (not using like or as) that are often not similar. Example: I slept like a log

Analogy: I s a comparison between two similar things. Example: comparing a heart to a pump.

Repetition: An author uses repetition to emphasise something. It is repeating a word more than once. "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.     How dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog. To tell your name livelong day To an admiring bog!" // Emily Dickinson 1830-1889 //

Personification: Personification is giving inanimate objects human qualities. Example: The wind was howling. The wind can not actually howl because the wind is not a living thing.

Allusion: An allusion is a short reference to something creating an immediate mental image for the reader. "Swallowed up like jonah"

Oxymoron; An oxymoron is sentence that uses two different or opposite terms. Example: A dark light.

Euphemism:Saying something in a different way to make it sound less offensive or harsh. "to pass away" instead of "to stop living and never to walk the earth... EVER AGAIN!"

Imagery: A piece of text that is very descriptive and creates paintings in the mind. "The water was as clear as glace, it shined in the summer sun like diamends."

Irony: There are three types of irony. Situational, dramatic and verbal. Situational irony is when something is expected to be, but isn't. A fire man dies in his own house fire. Dramatic is when we, as the audience, knows something the Character doesn't. Verbal irony is when the author says something that differs from what it is supposed to be mean.

Malapropism: The act of misusing words. Example: "Promise to forget this sir"

Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like a sound. "cucoo, meow, moo...etc"

Satire: A, usually funny, form of writing that critisises society. "Steven Harpe sucks!"

SImile: Simile is a comparison of two usually unlike things using like or as.

Symbol: A symbol is an object or thing that represents something. A cabin with open doors could represent safety and comfort.

Theme : The subject or idea that the story revolves around.