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| the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables |
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| the act of making an indirect reference to something : the act of alluding to something |
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| the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically |
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| resemblance of sound in words or syllables |
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| unrhymed verse; specifically : unrhymed iambic pentameter verse |
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| a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds |
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| rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse |
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| an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go) |
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| individual or favorable thought |
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| the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes |
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| correspondence or recurrence of sounds especially in words; specifically : recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels |
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| two successive lines of verse forming a unit marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained utterance |
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| direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea |
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| song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead |
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| to give a detailed explanation of a piece of writing |
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| language that contains or uses figure of speech, especially metaphors |
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| form of expression (as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener |
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