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| The stressed portion of a word |
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| Where characters, events and settings represent abstract qualities. Writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social or satiric |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another; for example, “beautiful blossoms blooming between the bushes” |
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| A reference to another work or famous figure assumed to be well known enough to be recognized by the reader |
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| An event, object, custom, person or thing that is out of order in time; some anachronisms are unintentional, such as when an actor performing Shakespeare forgets to take off his watch; others are deliberately used to achieve a humorous or satiric effect, such as the sustained anachronism of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court |
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