Poetic+Devices

**Poetic Devices**
__Hyperbole:__ an exaggeration - I've done this a million times.

 __Alliteration:__ the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds - He had horrible hair.

 __Rhythm:__ a repeating beat

__Rhyme:__ the pattern of words that contain similar sounds - sad/bad/mad/glad

 __Metaphor:__ the comparison of two different things - John is a pig.

 __Analogy:__ the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship

 __Repetition:__

 __Personification:__ giving an inanimate object human qualities - the wind whispered, the trees danced. 

 __Allusion:__ a reference

 __Oxymoron:__ putting two contradictory words together - small crowd, jumbo shrimp, good morning.

 __Euphemism:__

 __Imagery__

 __Irony__

 __Malapropism__

 __Onomatopoeia__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Satire__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __SImile__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Symbol__

<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"> __Theme__