poetic+devices

__Hyperbole__ Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

__Alliteratiation__ The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected word

__Rhythm & Rhyme__ Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen-hundred-ninety-two

__Metaphor__ A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied

__Analogy__ A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

__Repetition__ The action of repeating something

__Personification__ __an image represented in words__

__Allusion__ An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

__Oxymoron__ A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

__Euphemism__ A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

__Imagery__ Visual symbolism

__Irony__ __a trapper gets trapped in his own trap__

__Malapropism__ the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar

__Onomatopoeia__ The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

__Satire__ The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

__SImile__ __comparing two things to another__

__Symbol__ a image in coded in words in the novel or book

__Theme__ __the plot behind the story__