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| A figure of speech that draws a comparison between two things, not using "like" or "as" |
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| A figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different things, especially a phrase containing "like" or "as" |
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| The act of attributing human qualities or characteristics to animals, objects, or abstaracr ideas. |
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| an extravagant statemaent; extreme exaggeration; or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. |
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| An expression that is spearate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which is made. For example:"Break a leg" or "The early bird gets the worm." |
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| The repitition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of the word. For example: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. For example: Do you like blue |
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| A poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" or "all mammals named Sam are clammy |
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| The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur, that imitate the sounds associated with objects or actions in which they refer. |
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| A personal pronoun that is used as the subject of the sentence; the pronoun that performs the action verb. |
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| A pronoun that is the object of the verb |
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