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| the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter |
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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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expansion of a statement, narrative, etc., as for rhetorical purposes
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| The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills" (Winston S. Churchill). |
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| inversion of the usual order of words. |
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| a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical. |
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| Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. |
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a short pithy instructive saying
;is a kind of maxim, axiom |
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| address to an absent or imaginary person or concept |
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| Discussions directed to the reader and constituting a substantial break in the narrative illusion of reality are termed authorial intrusions. While ordinary descriptions are notauthorial intrusions, substantial essays addressed to the reader are. |
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| Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words |
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| A writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (opposite of polysyndeton) |
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| manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc |
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| A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative and set to music |
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| a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain |
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| the use of books in divination. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world: |
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a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things
"a caricature of a superhero is usually really handsome, extremely muscular with a broad chin and wears an impossibly tight costume |
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A verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed
in macbeth one of the witches say "fair is foul and foul is fair," which is an example of a chiasmus |
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| using conversational style |
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| Conflict is a necessary element of fictional literature. It is defined as the problem in any piece of literature and is often classified according to the nature of the protagonist or antagonist |
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| a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language, i.e. emotional association with a word. |
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| a stylistic device, most commonly used in poetry and songs, characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" or in "all mammals named Sam are clammy". |
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| a word that names or signifies something specific: “Wind” is the denotation for air in natural motion. |
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| style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction. |
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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
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| An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once |
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