a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar

• simile

• imagery

• metaphor

• assonance

attribution of personal qualities to something nonhuman

• assonance

• end rhyme

• oxymoron

• personification

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• alliteration

• personification

• assonance

• imagery

the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• alliteration

• assonance

• end rhyme

• onomatopoeia

relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels; repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants used as an alternative to rhyme in verse

• end rhyme

• symbolism

• assonance

• oxymoron

rhymes that occur in the final words of lines of poetry.

• onomatopoeia

• end rhyme

• alliteration

• imagery

the creation of words that imitate natural sounds

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings

• oxymoron

• simile

• symbolism

• imagery

the use of symbols to express or represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, etc.

• symbolism

• end rhyme

• oxymoron

• simile