•  A reader’s take on what the poem is saying literally. When answering a question on literal meaning it is important to take what the words say at face value. 

•  figurative meaning

•  literal meaning

• Imagery

• irony

• The writer’s feelings/attitudes towards the text/subject in which they are writing about. 

• Tone

• Setting

• Mood

• Theme

The audience’s feelings/attitudes towards the text

• Tone

• Mood

• Setting

• Voice

• Language that appeals to the five senses

• Setting

•  foreshadowing

• imagery

• Mood

• a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

the repetition of the same consonant sound in a line of poetry

• hyperbole

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• the repetition of  a vowel sound in consecutive words in a line of poetry or prose

• simile

•  foreshadowing

• assonance

• alliteration

• a direct comparison of two things not usually thought of as alike without using like or as.

• alliteration

•  hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects 

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• Hyberbole

• Mood

• an extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• alliteration

• Hyberbole

• Tone