Poetry+Devices

Repetition - Repeated words or phrases. "I happily walked out and happily retrieved my newspaper then happily read it."
 * **Hyperbole - ** An extreme exaggeration. "I told you a million times!"
 * **Alliteration - ** A series of words starting with the same sound. "Peter piper picked a pack of purple peppers"
 * **Rhythm & Rhyme - ** A set of words with a certain amount of syllables to create rhythm, and has a repetition of words with similar sounds. "There was a young boy name Bill, one day he walked up a hill."
 * **Metaphor - ** A direct comparison of two different subjects. "Life is a roller coaster."
 * **Analogy - ** Similarity between two subjects, in which they can be compared. "The analogy between a lion and a tiger."
 * **Personification - ** Giving animals or inanimate objects the traits of a human being. "The earthquake angrily shook the city."
 * **Allusion - **Brief reference to something
 * **Euphemism - ** A substitute for a word or phrase that may seem offensive. "He dumped her-He broke up with her."
 * **Imagery - ** Use of words to provide mental images. "The crimson horizon at the edge of the golden prairie."
 * **Irony - ** Use of words to represent the opposite of it's actual meaning.
 * **Malapropism- **Humorous misuse of word
 * **Onomatopoeia- **Words that spell out the sound they are referring to. "Buzz, Zip, etc."
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Oxymoron- **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Pairing of two contradictory words. "A smart idiot."
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Satire- **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Use of humor, irony, and exageration.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Simile - ** A comparison of two subjects using the words like or as. "He eats like a pig."
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Symbol- **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Something that symbolizes something.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Theme- **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Meaning of something