Creative Writing

The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Antithesis

The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

A figure of speech that contrasts opposing ideas.

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Antithesis

• Paradox

A literary device that gives human traits to non-human entities.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

A figure of speech that exaggerates for emphasis or effect.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Simile

• Metaphor

A literary device that involves a play on words, often for humorous effect.

• Pun

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

A figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to abstract concepts.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

A literary device that involves the use of contradictory terms in conjunction.

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Antithesis

• Alliteration

The use of similar sounding consonants in close proximity, but not necessarily at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia