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The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -
Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. -Milton.
Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. -Tennyson. |
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| An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication |
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The use of a similar example or model to explain or extrapolate from.
The birthing class instructor used a balloon and a ping-pong ball as an analogy for the baby in the womb.
Many use the Gospels' analogy of a mustard seed growing into a huge plant to explain faith. |
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| A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation. |
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| The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and presentation. |
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| The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn't, implying a similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, and without the words "like" or "as". |
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| a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, generally using like or as. |
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compares two objects, but is an exaggeration looks like a simile (ex: his feet were as big as a barge) |
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| A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities |
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used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience (ex: similie, metaphor, personification) |
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a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does, and what one means or what is generally understood. In modern usage, it can refer to incongruity between the intended meaning of an action and the actual or perceived meaning of an action. |
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| the related experience of the narrator |
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(POV) 1st person 2nd person 3rd person |
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1st: (I)In a first person narrative, the narrator is a character in the story 2nd: (he, she, it) a narrative technique in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun "you". 3rd: ( he, she, they, them, their, herself, himself, themselves, etc.) In third person limited the narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from only one character's view. |
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(POV) 3rd person omniscient |
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| told from the point of view of the storyteller who knows all the facts |
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(POV) 3rd person objective |
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| tells a story without detailing any characters' thoughts and instead gives an objective point of view. This point of view can be described as "a fly on the wall" and is preferred in newspaper articles |
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| time, location and circumstances in which a story takes place |
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