Poetic Devices

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+# Poetry
+
+## Poetic Devices
+
+### Figures of Speech
+
+A way of saying something other than the ordinary way.
+
+#### Simile
+
+An **explicit (direct) comparison** between two things using words such as like, as, appears, or seems.  
+
+Examples:
+
+- A sip of Mrs. Cook’s coffee is like a punch in the stomach.
+- He is as rich as Bill Gates.
+
+#### Metaphor
+
+Makes an **indirect comparison** between two unlike things without using words such as like or as.
+
+Examples:
+
+- Allan is a tower of strength for his family.
+- Life is “a brief candle” – William Shakespeare
+
+#### Personification
+
+ **Human qualities are given to non-human** things such as an animal, thought, or object.
+
+Examples: 
+
+- The trees screamed in the raging wind.
+
+- The wind whispered her name. 
+
+#### Paradox
+
+A statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense
+
+Examples:
+
+- You can save money by spending it.
+- The beginning of an end.
+- “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”. -- Animal Farm by George Orwell
+
+#### Hyperbole / Overstatement
+
+Use of exaggeration.
+
+Example: 
+
+- I’ve told you a million times – don’t slam the door! 
+
+- Her brain is the size of a pea.
+
+#### Understatement
+
+A deliberate playing down of a situation in order to make a point; intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.
+
+Example: 
+
+- One nuclear bomb can ruin your day.  
+
+#### Irony
+
+A meaningful gap between expectation and outcome, or when what is said is different from what is meant.
+
+Examples:
+
+- I posted a video on YouTube about how boring and useless YouTube is.
+
+- “Oh great! Now you have broken my new camera.”
+
+#### Symbolism
+
+An object represents the subject / idea. It’s the “symbol” of the idea. 
+
+*Some common associations:*
+
+- Sleep is often related to death. Night often suggests darkness, death, or grief. Dreams are linked to the future or fate. 
+- Seasons often represent ages: winter/old age or death; spring/youth; summer/prime of life; fall or autumn/middle age
+- Colours are often linked to emotions: red/passion or anger; blue/happiness or calm; green/jealousy; colors are also used to represent states of being: black/death or evil; white/purity or innocence; red/danger; green/growth
+
+#### Repetition
+
+Ideas or words that are repeated more than once to emphasise and deepen meaning.
+
+Example:
+“And miles to go before I sleep,
+ And miles to go before I sleep”
+ -- Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’
+
+#### Allusion
+
+A reference to another work of fiction, a film, or a piece of art with which the reader is presumably familiar.
+
+Examples:
+-	She felt like she had a golden ticket. (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
+-	If I’m not home by midnight, my car might turn into a pumpkin. (Cinderella)
+-	My math teacher is he who must not be named. (Voldemort from the Harry Potter series)
+
+### Sound Devices
+
+#### Onomatopoeia
+
+The use of words which sound like what they mean
+
+Examples:
+
+- the **buzzing** of the bee
+
+- the **splashing** of the rain
+
+#### Rhyme
+
+A pattern of words that contains similar sounds at the end of the line.
+
+Example:
+
+Baa baa black sheep, have you any **wool**?
+ Yes sir, yes sir, three bags **full**!
+ One for the master, one for the **dame**,
+ And one for the little boy who lives down the **lane**.
+
+#### Internal rhyme
+
+Rhyming that occurs within the line(rather than at the end) .
+
+Examples:
+
+- p**iece** of m**e** emerges.
+
+- I went to t**own** to buy a g**own**.
+
+#### Assonance
+
+Repetition of internal vowel sounds of words close together in poetry.
+
+Examples:
+- mystery disguised within.
+- "Hear the mellow wedding bells" by Edgar Allen Poe.
+
+#### Consonance
+
+Repetitive sounds produced by consonants (non-vowel sounds) within a sentence or phrase.
+
+Examples:
+
+- ‘Do no***t*** *go gen**t**le in**t**o tha**t** good nigh**t**’ *–* the title of a poem by Dylan 
+
+- Thomas
+
+  - I dropped the lo**ck**et in the thi**ck** mud.
+
+  - Some ma**mm**als are cla**mm**y. 
+
+### Alliteration
+
+Repetition of the initial consonant sounds.
+
+Example**s:
+
+- **t**errible **t**ruths
+
+- A **b**ig **b**ully **b**eats a **b**aby **b**oy.
+
+In our daily life, we notice alliteration in the names of different companies. It makes the name of a company catchy and easy to memorize. Here are several common examples.
+
+- **C**oca **C**ola
+- **B**est **B**uy
+
+## In-class Poetry
+
+### You Fit Into Me
+
+### Some Days
+
+### Funeral Blues