Poetic+Devices

1. I have a million things to do today. Hyperbole

2. Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.  Alliteration

 3. That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly Oxymoron
 * 1)  Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.

Simile
 * 1)  The water is like the sun."

Euphamism
 * 1)  Praying to the [|porcelain] [|alta]r

Exaggeration
 * 1)  I was so embarrassed, I thought I might die

Metaphor 9. Health food makes me sick. Oxymoron
 * 1)  He has the heart of a lion

10. You are the sun in my sky Metaphor

11.A host of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Imagrey

12.His belt was a snake curling around his waist Metaphor

13.Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand  Alliteration

 Metaphor
 * 1)  Wardrobe malfunction

 15.We have to believe in free will. We have no choice

16.Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink I want to die young at a ripe old age Irony 17.Collateral damage Euphamism

18.Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping. Alliteration


 * 1)  Running faster than the speed of light.

20.Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way, / They stretched in never-ending line / Along the margin of a bay

Imagrey

21.He was a man of great statue Malapropism

22. We seem to have unleased a hornet's nest. Malpropism
 * 1)  Red rooster says, "Cockadoodle do doo"

Onomapopiea Onomatopiea Metaphor Malpropism
 * 1)  ... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,
 * 1)  And murmuring of innumerable bees.
 * 1)  A riverboat shall be my horse.
 * 1)  The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Simile
 * 1)  O My Luve's like a red, red rose,

29. 'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. ... (1–8)   Satire

> You get into it and then you never > want to stop Simile
 * 1)  Hockey is like reading