Poetic+Devises


 * Hyperbole -** The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It is used to show strong emotions and is not meant to be taken literally.
 * Alliteration -** Alliteration is the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases.
 * Rhythm & Rhyme -** Rhythm is the recurrence which gives a beat to a poem, and rhyme is the matching of sounds.
 * Metaphor -** A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea.
 * Analogy -** A cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process
 * Repetition - T**he simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, in order to emphasize.
 * Personification -** Implication that an animal, object, or idea is doing something only a human could do.
 * Allusion - **A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
 * Euphemism - ** A substitution of a word that may offend the reader, using instead an agreeable or less offensive word.
 * Imagery - ** The use of words to describe what something in the poem looks like.
 * Irony - ** A rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions.


 * Malapropism - ** The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding word to create an amusing effect.
 * Onomatopoeia - ** A word that imitates or suggests the sound that it describes.
 * Oxymoron - **The use of language to replace terms that are too explicit.

 
 * Satire - **A genre of literature in which society or an individual are shamed by constructive social criticism, and wit is the main attack.
 * Simile - **A comparison between two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as'.
 * Symbol - **An object, person, or event that functions by itself but also has an indirect meaning.
 *  Theme - ** The main idea or argument expressed in a story or poem.