Figures of Speech

This refers to the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

This refers to the identity or similarity of sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Epiphora

This is the repetition of consonant sounds in the final position.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Anadiplosis

This is the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects they refer to.

• Epiphora

• Anadiplosis

• Onomatopoeia

• Anaphora

Same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

• Anadiplosis

• Anaphora

• Epiphora

• Synecdoche

The last word of a verse or sentence is repeated in the beginning of the next one.

• Anaphora

• Anadiplosis

• Epiphora

• Prosopopoeia

This is the stated comparison usually using like or as between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Apostrophe

This is an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in common.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

This is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Apostrophe

• Prosopopoeia

This an extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

• Irony

• Sarcasm

• Hyperbole

• Understatement