Poetic Devices

They dressed in black to the funeral of their friend

The tread of time is so ruthless that it tramples even the kings under its feet.

Attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas

The ability to form mental pictures of things or events

You have a sixth sense like an owl

A new road to freedom passes through this valley of death

It rained a bit more than usual.

There lay refuse heaps on their path that were so smelly that it maddened them

You have told me a hundred times how deeply you pitied me for the sorceries,

She sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her

Literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and description

I thought they’d killed you. I lost my temper

A figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old age regret.

An important rule to help determine Poetic Devices

I am your son, amá, seeking the security of shadows,

The rustling leaves kept me awake

Represent something else beyond themselves.

The Muslim forces raised their flag with a crescent on it.

I got into with someone because I called her miss ann/kennedy/rockerfeller instead of ms.

The skies of his future began to darken

Having nothing, nothing can he lose

I nearly died laughing

Paid volunteers were working for the company

The subject matter of a conversation or discussion

Extravagant exaggeration

Passing reference or indirect mention

Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.

Using words that imitate the sound they denote

Conjoining contradictory terms

This place is like a Garden of Eden

This is saying less than what you mean in the service of truth.

Using part of something to refer to the whole thing

The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet

Their high keening is an electric net pulling us in, girls who have never seen the old land. .

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

My grandmother is as old as the hills

The burger, aromatic with spices, made his mouth water in anticipation of the first bite

Speech is silver, but silence is gold

Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

The tropical storm slept for two days.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe

Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her

Stop acting like my ex-husband please.

An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.

Life is a tale told by an idiot — full of sound and fury, signifying nothing