Fig. Lang.

- the repetition of consonant sounds in a line or phrase.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

the pattern or rhyme between lines of poetry. We Use letters to indicate which lines rhyme.

• Simile

• Rhyme Scheme

• Idiom

• Metaphor

when the poet repeats sounds, lines, or phrases usually for emphasis.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Repetition

• Simile

the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or phrase.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyberbole

• Assonace

Reference to another piece of literature, history, art, music, etc.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

A comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

A comparison between two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”. Comparing two things by saying one is the other.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyberbole

a gross exaggeration.

• Hyberbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Assoncance

A word that imitates the sound suggested by it.

• Idiom

• Assonance

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom