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    This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language used in poetry. It discusses alliteration, assonance, consonance, epanaphora, hyperbole, imagery, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, simile, and synecdoche. For each term, it gives a brief definition and an example to illustrate the concept.

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    This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language used in poetry. It discusses alliteration, assonance, consonance, epanaphora, hyperbole, imagery, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, simile, and synecdoche. For each term, it gives a brief definition and an example to illustrate the concept.

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    Elements of Poetry

    Figurative Language
    Examples of Figurative
    Language
    Alliteration Onomatopoeia
    Assonance Oxymoron
    Consonance Personification
    Epanaphora Simile
    Hyperbole Synecdoche
    Imagery
    Alliteration
    Alliteration is the repetition of initial
    consonant sounds in words.

    Example: She sells sea shells by the


    seashore.
    Assonance
    Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds
    followed by similar consonant sounds.

    Example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I


    pondered, weak and weary…”
    - “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
    Consonance
     Consonance is the repetition of the same or
    similar consonant sounds.

     Example: tick tock or sing song.


    Epanaphora
    Epanaphora is repetition for emphasis.

    Example: “I have a dream…”


    - Martin Luther King Jr.
    Hyperbole
    Hyperbole is an exaggeration or
    overstatement for effect.

    Example: I had so much homework, I


    needed a pickup truck to carry all my books
    home.
    Imagery
    Imagery is the descriptive language used in
    literature to create word pictures for the
    reader.

    Note: These images are created by details of


    sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or
    movement.
    Onomatopoeia
    Onomatopoeia is the use of words that
    imitate sounds.

    Examples: whirr, thud, sizzle, hiss, bang,


    boom.
    Oxymoron
    Oxymoron is a figure of speech that
    combines opposite or contradictory terms.

    Examples: Sweet Sorrow, Deafening


    Silence, and Jumbo Shrimp
    Personification
    Personification is a type of figurative
    language in which a nonhuman subject is
    given human characteristics.

    Example: The leaves danced in the wind.


    Simile
    Simile is a figure of speech in which like or
    as is used to make a comparison between
    two unlike ideas.

    Example: It’s as easy as pie. He is as happy


    as a clam.
    Synecdoche
    Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a
    part represents the whole.

    Example: Will you please lend a hand?

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