Poetry

Hyperbole -are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect. e.g. “I’ve told you a million times.”

Alliteration -refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases. e.g. Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberries greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.

Rhythm & Rhyme -The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words, and the flow of words. e.g. One, two, buckle my shoe. Three, four, shut the door.

Metaphor -saying one thing is another. e.g. Life is a rollercoaster, it has it’s ups and downs.

Analogy -a similarity between two things. e.g. He is like a rock. Meaning he’s strong.

Repetition -the repeating of words. e.g. “Mississippi”

Personification -giving an inanimate object a human quality. e.g. The tree looks like it’s crying when it’s raining.

Allusion -is a direct or indirect reference to a person place or thing. e.g. “When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn’t necessary.” This is saying that she acted as unhappy as Scrooge in the “Christmas Carol”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oxymoron <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -positive plus a negative making it nothin. e.g. Cruel kindness

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Euphemism <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">expression <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">blunt <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. e.g. She passed away

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Using words to create an image in the reader's mind. e.g. The room had 20 Mac computers, 2 PC’s, 5 laptops, a smart board and a desk in the middle of the room where the teacher sat.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -is a literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings. e.g. “He went out hunting, but he was the one being hunted.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Malapropism <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an act or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> habit <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> misusing words ridiculously, especially by the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">confusion of words that are similar in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sound <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. e.g. He was a man of great statue.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Onomatopoeia <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -The use of words which imitate sound (sfx). e.g. Pow!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Satire <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Make fun of somebody’s stupidity in a humorous way. e.g. The Daily Show

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -comparing two things using like or as. e.g. The lake is like mirror.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -An object or action in a in sorry or article that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. e.g. The flag of a country.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Theme <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-the idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. e.g. Halloween, being everything is suppose to be scary that one night.