Poetic+Devices

__- Hyperbole-__ an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” -- he runs as fast as a lightning bolt.

__-Alliteration__- t he commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">apt alliteration's artful aid. // <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span class="ital-inline" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">//--// Dusk demands daylight.

__-Rhythm and Rhyme__- the rhythm to the poem/song... etc.-- da da di da da di /a pattern of words that contains similar sounds at the end of the line-- cat/ hat

__-Metaphor-__ when comparing two words, you do not use like or as. -- __-Analogy__- things that come to mind when saying a metaphor.

__-Repetition__- when it repeats

__-Personification-__ the attribution of a personal nature or character to in inanimate objects or abtract notion, esp. as a rhetorical figure.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Allusion-__ a passing or casual reference--Stephen Vincent Benet's story "By the Waters of Babylon" contains a direct reference to Psalm 137 in the Bible.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Oxymoron-__ when two words mean almost the opposite in one sentence beside each other.-- the hot ice.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Euphemism-__ the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. -- to pass away/ to die. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Imagery-__ is using words to recall the five senses--- i can almost taste the smell of the food.

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Irony__- almost like, the opposite between what is said and what is meant.-- good job // it can be said as you did a good job and meant as bad job.

__Malapropism-__ is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound. --

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Onomatopoeia-__ the formation of a word --- boom, splash,

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; cursor: default; font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">__Simile-__ comparing two words, using the words like or as in the sentence.--- She is as smart as Albert Einstein.

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 * POETIC WORKSHEET**

1. I have a million things to do today. <span style="font: 11px/16px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;">HYPERBOLE

<span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">2. Hannah’s home has heat hopefully. <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px;">ALLITERATION <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">3. That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">OXYMORON <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">4. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos. ALLITERATION!!@!!!

SIMILIE
 * 1) The water is like the sun."

6. Praying to the [|porcelain] [|alta]r ALLITERATION AND EUPHEMISM

7. I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die HYPERBOLE

> METAPHOR 9. Health food makes me sick. OXYMORON
 * 1)  He has the heart of a lion

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="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">METAPHOR <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">13.Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ALLITERATION <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">14. Wardrobe malfunction <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px;">EUPHEMISM <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">15.We have to believe in free will. We have no choice <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px;">OXYMORON 16.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink I want to die young at a ripe old age <span style="color: #262626; font: 11px/18px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px;">IRONY 17.Collateral damage <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">EUPHEMISM <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">18.Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping. <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 3px;">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

23. Red rooster says, "Cockadoodle do doo" ONOMATOPOEIA

> ONOMATOPOEIA ONOMATOPOEIA
 * 1)  ... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
 * 1) And murmuring of innumerable bees.
 * 1) And murmuring of innumerable bees.

METAPHOR
 * 1) A riverboat shall be my horse.

27. The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder. MALAPROPISM

28. O My Luve's like a red, red rose, SIMILE

<span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">A Fool might once himself alone expose, <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. ... (1–8) <span style="font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">SATIRE > You get into it and then you never > want to stop SIMILE
 * 1) <span style="decimal: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11px/19px Andale Mono; letter-spacing: 0px;">'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
 * 1)  Hockey is like reading