a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words

the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses

the pattern of the stressed and the unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

words or phrases that mean something different from the literal meanings of the words

a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a division of a poem that is often referred to as a “paragraph of poetry”

the “end rhymes” of poems; the poem follows a specific rhyming of words at the end of each line shown by capital letters

a word or phrase that means the same thing as another word

a word with the opposite meaning of another word