Assonance

synecdoche

Personification

Tale

Allegory

Pathetic fallacy

Definition:a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

Assonance

Definition: a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events.

Example: The clouds ache bleakly and when they can manage it crush someone's head in without a sound of anger. This is a brutal mystery. We meet in the streets with our hands in our pockets and snarl guiltily at each other as if we had flayed a cloud or two in our salad days. Lots of things do blame us; and in moments when I forget how cruel we really should be I often have to bite my tongue to keep from being guilty.

The allegory in this example is the clouds

Definition: Pathetic fallacy is a kind of personification that gives human emotions to inanimate objects of nature for example referring to weather features reflecting a mood.

Example: William Wordsworth- I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high over vales and hills.

He is using the clouds for his emotions.

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Definition: a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Example: The western wave was all a-flame.

The day was well was nigh done!

Almost upon the western wave

Rested the broad bright Sun.

The “western wave” is a synecdoche as it refers to the sea by the name of one of its parts ( Wave ).

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Example : A fragile winter butterfly

Flutters in the sky

So soft and yet her heart

Is cold and made of ice

But if I warm it

She will melt and die

Poem by: Elaine George

Definition:A form of poetry in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. Personification offers the poet a way to give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals, inanimate objects, and abstract ideas.

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Example: Among the classic poets of fine rhyme - are balladeers who weave with lines a tale, the satirists and bards of the sublime, and troubadours who sing a light rondel. I close my eyes, imagining I'd dwell among them all - a poetess in bliss. Could heaven be as wonderful as this? With modern poets too I would commune; With friends I'd known on earth I'd reminisce . . . and poetry would flow - celestial boon! A Dizain with rhyme scheme: a. b. a. b. b. c. c. d. c. d and done in iambic pentameter.

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The Tale in this poem is the satirists and bards of the sublime, troubadours, a poetess in bliss, I would dwell among them all , could heaven be as wonderful as this

Definition: the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.

Example: Robert Johnson- The union shop decided to picket. The union rep got a round trip ticket. To meet with those upstairs. And voice the workers cares. Butt in the end, they told him to stick it.

The assonance in this poem is et, it.

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Personification in this poem is "winter butterfly",

"her heart is cold and made of ice, she will melt"

Poem by Darrell Paim

sonnet

Metonymy

Satire

Simile

Limerick

Hyperbole

Example:

Definition: A limerick is a five-line, often humorous and ribald poem with a strict meter. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of have seven to ten syllables (three metrical feet) and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven (two metrical feet) syllables and also rhyme with each other. The rhyme scheme is usually "A-A-B-B-A"

Definition: Small or little song or lyric.

Example: What guile is this, that those her golden tresses

She doth attire under a net of gold;

And with sly skill so cunningly them dresses,

That which is gold or hair, may scarce be told?

Is it that men’s frail eyes, which gaze too bold,

She may entangle in that golden snare;

And being caught may craftily enfold

Their weaker hearts, which are not yet well aware?

Take heed therefore, mine eyes, how ye do stare

Henceforth too rashly on that guileful net,

In which if ever ye entrapped are,

Out of her bands ye by no means shall get.

Folly it were for any being free,

To covet fetters, though they golden be.

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Definition: Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule.

Example: Adair Welcker, Poet THE Swan of Avon died--the Swan Of Sacramento'll soon be gone; And when his death-song he shall coo, Stand back, or it will kill you too.

The satire in this poem is "song he shall coo, Stand back or it will kill you too."

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Definition: Is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.

Example: We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess, in the Ring

We passed the fields of Gazing Grain

We passed the Setting Sun

Or rather, He passed Us

The Dews drew quivering and chill

For only Gossamer, my Gown

My Tippet, only Tulle

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground

The Roof was scarcely visible

The Cornice in the Ground

Since then 'tis Centuries, and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity

- Because I Could Not Stop For Death - Emily Dickinson

The metonyny in this poem is A swelling of the ground is to replace the house standing there.

The Limerick of this poem rhymes using rising &

surprising and in the 5th sentence disguising and

there is 5 lines total to the poem.

Definition: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Example: You can’t hear a pin drop As all the kids gather around;They are vultures Waiting for the corpse Of the one who loses.The tall kid… He swings his fist with his hurricane force.A torrential spray of blood Explodes from the smaller boy’s nose And covers the tiled floor. The vultures fly away As the teachers quickly approach.

The Hyperbole in this sentence is They are Vultures

Example : In spring time fresh flowers are rising New lambs in the fields – not surprising In every hedgerow and tree Lush beauty will surround me It’s heaven; there is no disguising

Poem by: Debbie Gonzie

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Poem by: Mark J. Holliday

The Simile in this poem is Love like fire,

forever blooming, my torch forever burn

An expression that compares one thing to another using 'like' or 'as'.

My Only Flame Love, like fire, is all-consuming, And forever should be blooming. Endless courtship is not a game. As we watch each year’s seasons turn, My torch for you will ever burn. No regrets giving you my name. You always will my soul inspire, Forever be my one desire-- My first and last and only flame.

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Paradox

Oxymoron

Dialect

Idiom

Consonance

Extended Metaphor

Definition:A stylistic device, often used in poetry. It is the repetition of consonant sounds in a short sequence of words, for example, the "t" sound in "Is it blunt and flat?"

Definition: A word or phrase used to have a completely different meaning

Definition: a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

Example: The greatest illusion is stillness Numb to the sense of spinning on this atlas stone Unaware of twirling on a celestial clock We are a mere blemish on a cog In this device of time Atlas are you unable to rest? Put your burden down and for a moment be still. Let us be immortal like gods of olympus Give us strength to defeat this titan Our adversary time Take us back To relive our dear bliss The moments that linger in our minds They're the fabric that make up the soul Turn time into oblivion with sweet scents of anodyne Atlas chooses to carry his stone Striding to his never ending destination The cruel paradox that ends our short bleak lives This colossal does not rest or sleep It's intangible time

The paradox in this poem is immortal like gods.

Definition: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Oxymoron in Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Criticism'

'The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,

With loads of learned lumber in his head,

With his own tongue still edifies his ears,

And always list'ning to himself appears.' -

Definition: A very powerful and common way of characterization.

Example: Jim: “We’s safe, Huck, we’s safe! Jump up and crack yo’ heels. Dat’s de good ole Cairo at las’, I jis knows it.”

Huck: “I’ll take the canoe and go see, Jim. It mightn’t be, you know.”

In this Example Jim and Cairo are speaking in there own words together.

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Definition: A language familiar to a group of people

Poem by: Michael Degenhardt

An idiom for you An idiom for me It’s just an expression, a message, you see. Silence is golden. Trouble comes in three. Each to his own taste. The powers that be. A rock and a hard place. Bat out of Hell. A pig in the poke. The day will tell. Pedal to the metal. Pie in the sky. Over the top. Apple of my eye. Pictures paint a thousand words. They are dropping like flies. Put your thinking cap on. Pull the wool over his eyes Now, I have shed some knowledge here for all. Go learn some more idioms and have yourself a ball!

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Example:Life is like a highway with many a perilous twist and turn! Alas, not all roads are straight and narrow, of that for which we yearn. Many are the detours we must take traveling life's fleeting bourne. Though the road be strewn with potholes, these are hazards to be borne! When nearing a "Y" in the road, it might be well to gently tap the brake, Or even stop to contemplate the fateful decision you're about to make. "If I take the left, will it lead to a life of misery - such a terrible blunder, Or if I take the right, might that enhance my ultimate fate, I wonder?" Many are the warning signs along life's highway that must be heeded! A miserable and unproductive life will surely ensue, if they go unheeded. Perhaps a few U-turns will be needed to make corrections along the way, But a well-planned route will ease the stress to keep from going astray! A compass calibrated on things above will guide you to your destination. It will keep you focused on life's itinerary through trial and tribulation. Life's treacherous highway will be rife with blind spots, curves

Poem by Robert L Hinshaw

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Example: Finely chopped Basil atop red tomato bisque A soup as fine as a sweet kiss from tender warm lips that risk Licorice scent adorns lean beef and carrot stew Like sweet surrender to a love that recently renewed Green glowing chopped chives dancing in butter alive Alluring adorable lover dance 'pon motion thrive Tasty heavenly honey mixed with Cajun spice A little sweet with spicey desire sexy sugar nice Like food love tempts all senses and brings to them life Romance steps softly to lead the way to taste spice twice

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The example of the Oxymoron in this poem is

the idioms in this poem are in

every line of the poem.

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In this poem the extended metaphor is: life is like a highway

Poem by: Sara Kendrick

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The Consonance in the poem is

the sound "ive", "op", "ey"

Parallelism

stereotype

archetype

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Onomatopoeia

Irony

definition: A very typical example of a certain person or thing.

Example: He or she is a character who predominantly exhibits goodness and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society.

It is comparing it to a hero.

http://literarydevices.net/archetype/

Definition: The state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.

Example: "Good we must love, and must hate ill,

For ill is ill, and good good still;

But there are things indifferent,

Which we may neither hate, nor love,

But one, and then another prove,

As we shall find our fancy bent.”

It shows that we love good because it is always good and we hate bad because it is always bad.

http://literarydevices.net/parallelism/

Definition: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Example: It is not right

when people think your color

equals your nature.

It is a stereotype because it is saying that people think that because someone is a different color then that person is different.

http://hellopoetry.com/words/26564/stereotypes/poems/

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Definition: Figure of speech in which the ordinary meaning of the words is more or less the opposite of what the poet intends.

Also spelled onomatopœia. A figure of speech that employs a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates the sound it is describing, and thus suggests its source object. A word imitating a sound.

Poem by:Kanti Chakabarty

Twang toot Fing Foo Jingle jingle rattle boo Tiger Tiger splash, squish Skycrapper’s crashing swish Wretched retches snorting snuck Timtimbuctoo’s belching buck Whoosh whoosh Winnie Treetree murmur Croaking frogie's hiss hiss charmer Punipuni giggles growling grunt Oink oink words' trilling witchhunt

An example of the Onomatopoeia in this poem is Fing Foo, Tiger Tiger, Whoosh whoosh, Treetree, Murmur, Oink oink

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-"x+2 = 4"- Enigmas of the soul Do you know how it feels? Never tasted before Invisible Sun

The Irony in this poem is do you know how it feels

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