Author's Craft Definitions

a comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

assigning human characteristics to an object that is not alive

• assonance

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

vivid details provided by the author to help the reader imagine a scene

• assonance

• imagery

• similes

• alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds

• metaphor

• alliteration

• anaphora

• repetition

repetition of vowel sounds

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• connotation

• theme

repetition of phrases at the beginnings of lines throughout a text, usually a poem or a speech

(We will . . . We will . . . We will . . . )

• end rhyme

• anaphora

• personification

• assonance

rhyming words that appear at the end of a line, usually in a poem or a speech

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• patterns

• mayhem

the emotional feeling or idea associated with a word

• connotation

• allusion

• anaphora

• denotation

a reference to something well-known in a particular culture, usually in religion, history, art

• simile

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• allusion

Rhyme that occurs with words having similar vowel sounds and consonant sounds within the line, not at the end of the line of a poem or speech.

• targeted rhythm

• Internal rhyme

• assonance

• tone