Poetic+Devices+in+‘We+Are+More'

__Hyperbole__: 'We dream so big that there are those/ Who would call our ambition an industry' __Alliteration__: 'students who study the studiousness of studying' __Rhythm and rhyme__: 'But we're more than just hockey and fishing lines/Off of the rocky coast of the Maritimes' __Metaphor__: 'We are an idea in the process of being realized/We are young, we are cultures strung together then woven into a tapestry/And the design is what makes us more than the sum totals of our history' __Analogy__: 'we are found missing puzzle pieces' An analogy meaning that Canada is a place where misfits and diverse people fit in with each other. __Repetition__: 'filled with all the hope people have/when they say things like “someday”'... 'for those who on that day/look towards tomorrow/and still they say someday' __Personification__: 'all the great themes get swallowed up by the machine' __Allusion:__ 'beatboxing to Neil Young for fun' __Oxymoron:__ 'we are first-rate greasy-spoon diners...' __Euphemism:__ ' __Imagery: '__we are cultures strung together then woven into a tapestry /And the design is what makes us more than the sum totals of our history' __Irony:__ 'might even mention the fact that we’ve got a few Barenaked Ladies' __Malapropism:__ 'and yes we say zed instead of zee' __Onomatopoeia:__ 'like zippers' __Satire____:__ 'and yes we say zed instead of zee' __SImile:__ 'go deep/as if James Cameron was filming a sequel to The Abyss' __Symbol:__ 'you might shake a tree in the fall/and call a red leaf Canada' __Theme:__ 'we are the surprise the world has in store for you it’s true' That Canada is a land of oppertunity.

__Hyperbole:__ And exaggerated overstatement ex, He weighed a ton! __Alliteration:__ Repetition of a certain sound in a poem, song, or speech. ex, He whistled wistfully into the whistling wind. __Rhythm & Rhyme:__ rhythm is a beat, and rhyme is when two words have the same ending, or sound similar to each other. __Metaphor:__ Comparing two un-alike things, without using ‘like’ or ‘as’. ex, he was an angry hurricane. __Analogy:__ A comparason of two things, a connection made mentally between two things. ex, both similies and metaphors are analogies. __Repetition__: A line or subject that is repeated throughout a poem. __Personification:__ Applying a human characteristic to something that isn’t human. ex, The clock sat on the mantle. __Allusion:__ A reference or mention to another media. It could be direct; ex, an allusion to the bible. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Oxymoron:__ Combining to opposite or contradictory words. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ex, true lies <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Euphemism:__ Putting something gently ex, he passed away <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Imagery:__ Words that create a strong image to the senses. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Irony:__ The opposite of what you expect to happen. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Malapropism:__ Misuse of a certain word, or confusion to a word that sounds similar. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ex, I went grocery chopping <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Onomatopoeia:__ A word that sounds like the sounds it’s describing. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ex, zip, boom, <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Satire:__ Mockery or ridicule using sarcasm or irony. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ex, 'Isn't it lovely how the cafateria lady puts hair in our food? Yum.' <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__SImile:__ A comparison using 'like' or 'as'. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ex, He was as quiet as a mouse. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Symbol:__ Something that stands for something else. <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">ex, 'he shook with anger like an old house in a storm.' <span style="font: 13px/19px Arial; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">__Theme:__ The overall idea or message conveyed by a poem.