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| The repetition of the same consant sound usually in the beginning of words |
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| When a talker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea |
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| An idea that goes beyond a dictionary definition |
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| The dictionary definition of a word |
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| The selection of words in a literary work |
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| A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
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| Design structure or pattern |
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| A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. |
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| A figure of speech involving exaggeration |
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| A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as |
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| The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems |
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| The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities |
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| The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. |
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| A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though |
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| A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form |
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| what a story or play is based on |
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| The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work |
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