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Imagery• The formation of

mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectivel.

• Examples• From the family tree

of old school hip hop Kick off your shoes and relax your socks The rhymes will spread just like a pox Cause the music is live like an electric shock.

Irony

• The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

• Examples.• Yet Brutus says he was

ambitious;And Brutus is an honourable man“

• Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink

Analogy

• A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.

• Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

• Glove is to hand as monitor is to computer.

Hyperbole

• An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”

• Examples• I am so tired I could

sleep for a year.• He is older than the

hills.

Paradox

• A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

• Examples• Dark knows daylight“.• "Hot understands

cold“.

simile

• An instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.

• Examples.• Bill ran along the

street and listened to the traffic. His skin was as hot as the concrete.

• I don't like what's going on. I feel like a noodle in boiling water.

Onomatopoeia

• Is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

• Examples• The clock goes tick

tock.• The birds like to tweet

outside my window.

Metaphor

• A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.

• Examples• The streets were a

furnace, the sun an executioner."

• A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind."

Personification

• An outstanding example of a quality or idea: "He's invisible, a walking personification of the Negative

• Examples• Fear knocked on the

door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

• Wind yells while blowing.

Rhyme

• is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.

• Examples• Little Miss Muffet,

sat on her tuffet.• Humpty Dumpty sat

on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Allitaration

• Alliteration is the genus, whereas, assonance and consonance are the species

• Examples• Sweet smell of

success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy.

• And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.