Poetry uses devices such as&colon; alliteration, repetition, rhyme, metaphors, and similes. He also favours the mixed metaphor, an absurd combination of two incompatible metaphors. He has a habit of speaking in allusions, metaphors, and similes. Sometimes these intertwining metaphors create dramatic irony. Symbolism is a common theme of extended metaphors. Rapsody is known for her intricate rhyme patterns, metaphors, and wordplay. "Conceptismo" is characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, simple vocabulary, witty metaphors, and wordplay. See English language idioms derived from baseball and baseball metaphors for sex. It contains many antitheses, questions, exclamations, tropes, metaphors, and other mannerisms of the Silver Age. Rilke often worked with metaphors, metonymy and contradictions. Purple prose is characterized by the excessive use of adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors. Various metaphors and images are used to illustrate this idea. Lakoff and his collaborators have collected thousands of examples of conceptual metaphors in many domains. The unconscious mind responds to openings, opportunities, metaphors, symbols, and contradictions. The same applies for the other conceptual metaphors.