Poetic+Devices

exaggeration for dramatic effect __I am so hungry I could eat a horse__. The repetition of initial consonant sounds. __Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.__ The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words, and the flow of words. __Rhyme is fly as a dime.__ Comparing two things without like or as __My heart is beating__ a similarity between two things. __Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get.__ The repeating of a word __Repetition, Repetition, Repetition__ A figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits or abilities. __The wind howled.__ is a direct or indirect reference to a familiar figure, place or event from history, literature, mythology or the Bible. __I'm no Luongo I can protect my five hole.__ a seeming contradiction in two words put together. __Criminal Justice__ the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. __She passed away__ Using words to create an image in the readers mind. __There shorts where dripping wet like a waterfall.__ is a literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings. __the name of Britain’s biggest dog was Tiny?__ an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by confusion of words that are similar in sound. __The United States has a huge aerosol of nuclear weapons that act as a detergent against attack from there enemies.__ The use of words which imitate sound. __BAM!, POW!__ A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. __The Daily Show__ Comparing two things with like or as __Big as the sun__ An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. __Light can represent death__ he idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. __Dont rush into choices can be a theme__
 * Hyperbole**
 * Alliteration**
 * Rhythm & Rhyme**
 * Metaphor**
 * Analogy**
 * Repetition**
 * Personification**
 * Allusion**
 * Oxymoron**
 * Euphemism**
 * Imagery**
 * Irony**
 * Malapropism**
 * Onomatopoeia**
 * Satire**
 * SImile**
 * Symbol**
 * Theme**