Poetry+Devices

     
 * __Hyperbole__: An exaggeration of overly extravagant statement **
 * __Alliteration__: The use of the same consonant at the beginning of each syllable in a line of a verse**.
 * __Rhythm __****__& Rhyme: __The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music. Rhyme: Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines**
 * __Metaphor __: A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that does not literally happen or apply in order to suggest a similarity**.
 * __Analogy: __ An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.**
 * __Repetition: __ The repeated use of the same word or word pattern.**
 * __Personification__: Giving non non-living things human characteristics. **

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 * __<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Allusion: __ Passing reference or indirect mention.**
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Oxymoron: __Putting together contradictory terms.**
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Euphemism: __An inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive**
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Imagery: __Imagery is used in writing to make or create descriptive language that evokes sensory experience to the reader..**
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Irony: __Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.**
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Malapropism: __The intentional misuse of a word by confusion it with one that sounds similar.has a similar sound.**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">__Onomatopoeia:__ Using words to re-create sounds. **