Important Figures of speech used in Poetry

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Metaphor is a comparison between two different things.   For example - the world's a stage and all men and women are actors

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Onomatopoeia is a word which describes a sound.  For example - How they clang, and clash, and roar!

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Oxymoron is the use of two contradicting words such that one word is an adjective and the other is a noun but both contradict each other.  For example - beneficient beasts of prey

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Personification is when an object or non human being is given a human attribute.  For example -I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

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Simile is a phrase which compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.  For example - Her hair was as golden as the Sun

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Pun is the use of words with more than one meanings.  For example - an egg for breakfast is not easy to beat

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Synechdoche is a statement in which the part of a thing represents the whole of it.  For example - the hand that fed

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Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration.  For example - When thou weep'st, unkindly kinde, My lifes blood doth decay.

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Allusion is the reference to a famous personality or place or event.  For example -  "Dearest frog", the nightingale Breathed: "This is a fairy tale - And you are Mozart in disguise Come to earth before my eyes".

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