Poetic Devices from this Week:
 Repetition: The purposeful reuse of words and phrases for
an effect.
 Irony: As a figure of speech, irony refers to a difference
between the way something appears and what is actually
true.
 Pun: Word play in which words with totally different
meanings have similar or identical sounds.
 Hyperbole: An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.
 Allusion: A brief reference to some person, historical
event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or
character.