poetic+devices

*//I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.//
 * Hyperbole - **an exaggeration or overstatement.

//*The lady lounges lazily//
 * Alliteration ** - the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.

//*One, two,// //Buckle my shoe.// //Three, four,// //Shut the door.//
 * Rhythm and Rhyme - **a pattern of words that contain similar sounds.

//*////You are a tulip//
 * Metaphor - ** a comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as, as in a simile .

   //*Leaping// //higher, higher, higher//
 * Analogy - ** the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find.
 * //H//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//ot is to cold as fire is to ice//
 * Repetition - ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">repeated utterance; reiteration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//*The sun kissed my cheek.//
 * Personification - **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">giving human qualities to animals or objects.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*//It has rained so long, it seems as though it has rained for 40 days and nights.//
 * Allusion - **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*//Seriously joking, Sanitary landfill//
 * Oxymoron - **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">putting two contradictory words together

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*//He kicked the bucket//
 * Euphemism - ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, funny, or blunt.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">* // the moist green grass lead to a simple pathway of cold wet stones of different colours and shapes //
 * imagery**- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work


 * irony-** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">//My wife is up at the hospital having her anagram. The confusion of mammogram and anagram is a malapropism.//
 * Malapropism ** - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*S//plash, wow, gush, kerplunk//
 * Onomatopoeia ** - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">word that imitates the sound it represents.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//*The The Impotence of Proofreading by Taylor Mali//
 * Satire ** - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack.

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">*as brave as a lion //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">.
 * simile-** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">* // the chair stood as a coat rack //
 * symbol-** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">*title-we are more
 * theme-** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition