Poetic+Devices

 **Hyperbole**- is exaggeration or overstatement.  **Alliteration**- is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words  **Rhythm & Rhyme** - is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds  **Metaphor**- the comparison of two unlike things  **Analogy**- is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship **Repetition**- is the simple repeating of the word ** Personification- **A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities ** Allusion- **An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned **Euphemism- **Is a word or phrase used in place of a term that originally could not be spoken out loud ** Imagery- **A set of mental pictures or images ** Irony- ** t he use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning ** Malapropism- **inappropriate use of a word ** Onomatopoeia- ** O nomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make ** Oxymoron- **A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side ** Satire- **A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">** Simile- **A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">** Symbol- **Something that represents something else by association