Friday, January 15, 2010

Awesome Poetry Words

Apostrophe: "Why God! Why Me!" You can't actully see God but you talk to him like he is there.

Anthropomorism: The talking donkey yelled at the farmer.

Irony: A boy bet his friend that he could blow open the door, and at the time he blew the door opened because someone opened it from the other side.

Metaphor: Your heart is like the sun on a hot day.

Metonymy: I'm "ringing" Your not ringing, your phone is.

Paradox: Saying that your the greatest basketballer but not making the school team.

Personification- When an a idea or thing is given the form of a person. For example the idea of love can be represented by Cupid.

Simile- When two different things are compared. For example saying that "your eyes are like the deep blue sea" would be a simile.

Synecdoche- "all for one and one for all" (the three musketeers) would be an example of a synecdoche.

Tautology- unnecessarily wordy- an example would be "the big, huge, enormous, gargantuan, planet.

Understatement- to show or reference something as less than it is. "the earthquake in Haiti was minor with little damage" would be an understatement.

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