front 1 Metaphor | back 1 When a word is identified with something different from what the word literally denotes. Without like or as |
front 2 Oxymoron | back 2 a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
front 3 Simile | back 3 the comparisons of two unlike things using like or as |
front 4 Personification | back 4 human qualities being given to inanimate objects or abstract concepts |
front 5 Pun | back 5 a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings |
front 6 Hyperbole | back 6 language which greatly overstates or exaggerates facts, whether in earnest or for comic effect |
front 7 Cesura | back 7 a break in the flow of sound usually in the middle of a line of verse |
front 8 Onomatopoeia | back 8 words which resemble in sound what they represent, or words that correspond in other ways with what they describe:"Hiss" "Rattle" |
front 9 Iambic Pentameter | back 9 a line of verse composed of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
front 10 Anaphora | back 10 the repetitions of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines |
front 11 Apostrophe | back 11 words spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or an object or abstract idea |
front 12 Enjambment | back 12 a sentence or thought running into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run-on line |
front 13 Allusion | back 13 a brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event, or place, real of fictitious, or to a work of art. It may be drawn from history, geography, literature, mythology, music or religion |
front 14 Imagery | back 14 use of details and description to create a vivid sensory experience for the reader |
front 15 Personifications | back 15 human qualities being given to inanimate objects or abstract concepts |
front 16 Persona | back 16 the person created by the author to speak or to convey a story. "I am the grass, let me work". |
front 17 Alliteration | back 17 the repetition of initial identical consonant sounds in words close together, particularly using letters at the beginning of words or stressed syllables |
front 18 Anaphora | back 18 the repetitions of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines |
front 19 Assonance | back 19 the same or similar vowel sounds, particularly in stressed syllables, that end with different consonant sounds |
front 20 Consonance | back 20 the repetition of a patter of stressed consonants within words in which the separating vowels differ. "leaf" and "loaf" or "wind" and "behind" |
front 21 Parellelism | back 21 when an author constructs parts of a sentence to be grammatically similar, often repeating a specific word, phrase, or idea |
front 22 End rhyme | back 22 words at the end of successive lines which rhyme with each other |
front 23 Free Verse | back 23 verse with no rules whatsoever. The lines are irregular and may or may not rhyme. It is sometimes confused with blank verse, which does not rhyme but has a set metrical pattern. |
front 24 Repetition | back 24 using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech |
front 25 Couplet | back 25 a pair of lines that rhyme directly |
front 26 Stanza | back 26 a unified group of lines in poetry. Lines can be unified by length, metrical form, and often, rhyme scheme, but also by thought, like a paragraph |