Figurative speech

Address to a dead person or inanimate object as in Walt Whitman's " O Captain, My Captain"

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words

• Assonance

• Repetition of word

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

The connection or linking of one thing to another that does not use 'like' or 'as'

• Paradox

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

The poet's " reuse" of certain words of phrases in a poem

• Allusion

• Repetition of words/phrases

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The association of two contrary term , as in the expression ' same difference'

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Imagery

• Onomatopoesia

Author makes a reference to a historical place, person, or even in a literary work

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Paradox

A comparison of two things through the use of 'like' or 'as'

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Imagery

• Simile

An excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Paradox

• Onomatopoeia

The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Paradox

• Personification