Sense devices
Poets use different devices to appeal to a readers sense
1. Simile: comparing two different things by using "like" or "as"
"he was as big as a mountain."
2. Metaphor: a direct comparison by saying something is another thing, to suggest likeness or analogy
"you are my sunshine"
3. Personification: to attribute something with human qualities
- giving human characteristics to an object or animal or an abstract idea
- it is an implied metaphor comparing a nonhuman thing with a human
"death be not proud"
4. Hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration
"I will love you for until the sea because dry."