Poetry

__**Hyperbole **__ an extreme exaggeration of a statement. //"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."//

__**Alliteration **__ All the words starting with the same letter or sound. //"Ella excitedly exclaimed,"Eggs excite Emily!"."//

__**Rhythm & Rhyme **__ Rhythm- when the lines of a poem are rising and falling in emphasis at the same spots, rhyme- when the last words of lines rhyme. //"My name is Bob, my friend is Rob."//

__**Metaphor **__ A comparison of two things not using the words as or like. //"My life is a movie.".//

__**Analogy **__ Comparing two things that aren't alike at all. //"Eden turned to grief.".//

__**Repetition **__ repeating the same word or phrase a few times for dramatic effect. //"Free to speak, free to have my own beliefs, free to do as I wish, free to live."//

__**Personification **__ An object being given human qualities or doing human actions.//"The alarm clock screamed.".//

__**Allusion **__ stimulates many thoughts and associations with only a few words. //"Describing someone as Romeo.".//

__**Euphemism **__ Substituting a mild word for one that is considered offensive.

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 * <span style="display: inline !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">//"Mr. Prince: We'll see you when you get back from image enhancement camp.//
 * <span style="display: inline !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">//Martin Prince: Spare me your **euphemisms**! It's fat camp, for Daddy's chubby little secret!"//

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Imagery **__ Vivid descriptive language that helps the reader imagine the events going on in the story.//"The lake was as still as a mirror, reflecting it's beautiful surroundings in it's brilliant waters."//

__**<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Irony **__ When an event occurs that is really unlikely. //"A master pick-pocketer getting robbed by an amateur."//

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Malapropism **__ Using an incorrect word that may sound similar to the one you need to use. " //My children always like to ride the casserole when they go to the park."//

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Onomatopoeia **__ Using words to describe sounds. //"BOOM! SMASH!"//

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Oxymoron **__ Using two words together that are completely contradictory. //"A tiny giant" "Deafening silence"//

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Satire **__ A funny witty comment directed at someone to make fun of them. //"The movie "Scary Movie" which makes fun of horror films"//

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Simile **__ A comparison of two things using the words like or as. //"You are as beautiful as the first flowers in the spring."//

__**Symbol**__ An object or person that symbolizes something else. "//In the books "Harry Potter", Harry symbolized hope and freedom for the rest of the wizard world."//

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 * <span style="display: inline !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">//"Anyway, the **theme** of Charlotte's Web is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect."//
 * <span style="display: inline !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">//(E.B. White, quoted by Scott Elledge in E.B. White: A Biography. Norton, 1986)//