Descriptive Techniques

"Superman is a man of steel." This is an example of...

• a metaphor

• an idiom

• an oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

You're drawing me in and you're kicking me out...My head's under water, but I'm breathing fine.

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Motif

The repetition of a consonant sound (usually at the beginning of a word)

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Idiom

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; there was darkness, there was light. 

• Analogy

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

• Simile

And the shadow of the day will embrace the world in gray.

• Syntax

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

An exaggerated statement used to emphasize a point

• Idiom

• Assonance

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

A describing word. Sometimes there are three together to make them more effective.

• adjective

• verb

• noun

• adverb

Giving something non-human characteristics that are human.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• pathetic fallacy

Repetition of the sound "s" which creates a hissing effect.

• simile

• imagery

• sibilance

• alliteration

Something that is similar; it is "like" or "as"something else

e.g. The Moon is like a white balloon in the sky.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• adjective