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| a repetition of consonants, especially at the beginning of words |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in a poetic line. |
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| a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order. |
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| obvious and deliberate exaggerations; an extravagant statement not intended to be taken literally |
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| Language that evokes one of any of the five senses: seeing hearing, tasting, smelling, touching |
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| rhyming of a word within a line of a verse with a word at the end of the line. |
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| an implied analogy that identifies one thing with another. |
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| the name of one object or idea used for another to which it is related of of which it is a part. |
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| words formed in such a way that the sound of the words in themselves imitate the sounds of the things they describe |
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| two contradictory words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a paradox |
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| a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth |
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| ideas, animals, abstractions, and inanimate objects are given human form, traits, and or feelings |
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| two things are compared by using like, as or as if |
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| a reference to some famous person, place, or thing in history, in other fiction, or in actuality |
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| analysis of verse into metrical patterns |
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| a poetic measure that refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem |
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| a pattern of rhyme in the final words of poetic lines |
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| trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, sextameter, septameter |
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| a verse of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 feet |
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