Personification | | Words that express the five senses |
Denotation | | Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtapostion of words which contradict one another |
Assonance | | Addressing someone absent or dead as if they were alive |
Simile | | Using something to represent something else |
Alliteration | | Obvious exaggeration |
Oxymoron | | Words that sound like the words they make |
Rhythm | | Comparing two unlike objects |
Cliche | | Repitition of the same sound in words close to each other |
Hyperbole | | A mode of expression through words |
Metonymy | | Underlying meaning/implicit meaning |
Metaphor | | The close repetition of the same end consonants |
Imagry | | Overused phrase or saying |
Consonance | | Giving human characteristics to animals and other objects |
Connotation | | Saying less that one means |
Apostrophe | | An artistic device |
Repetition | | Words that start with the same sound |
Symbolism | | Using something closely related to the actual thing meant |
Understatement | | Regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem |
Irony | | Comparing two unlike objects using like or as |
Onomatopoeia | | Dictionary Definition |