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Simile

Compare using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Metaphor

Comparing different things by saying one thing IS another without using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Tone/mood

Reveal emotions through language, choices of words

Alliteration

Repeating the beginning consonant sound of words

e.g. Bubble bees bombed buildings

Consonance

Repeating any consonant sound of words

e.g. Mike likes his new bike

Assonance

Repeating vowel sound of words

e.g. Ani anti candy.

Onomatopoeia

Words similar to their sounds

Personification

Other unhuman things given human qualities

Imagery

Uses language based on the 5 sense

Diction

Specific choice of words

Cacophony

The unpleasant mix of phrases leads to chaos

e.g. Car horns, barking dogs, and shouting people all at once

Euphony

A pleasant mix of words that create a sense of beauty

Refrain

Repeating a word/line in poems stanza

End stopped line

A pause, marked by a punctuation mark

Caesura

A sudden paused

Enjambment

Continuously spread the sentence through lines without stopping

Repetition

Repeating phrases or words intentionally

Parallelism

Using the same grammar pattern

e.g. She likes eating, sleeping, gaming.

Juxtaposition

Contrasting ideas are placed near each other

Allusion

Refer something to well-known person, event, place, or work

e.g He is Einstein.

Apostrophe

Speaking directly to a real or imagine listener

e.g. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!

Cliché

A once clever speech but soon outdated

Connotation

A word that provoke more emotion than it's literal meaning

e.g. House vs. Home

Contrast

Close things that have different meanings

Understatement

Deliberately lower the actual importance of something

Euphemism

Replace a harsh situation with light expressions

Hyperbole

Exaggeration

Colloquial language

Words or phrases that related to a nation

Irony

Creating a gap between what is expected and what is real

Oxymoron

Contrasting words placed together

Paradox

A phrase contradict itself

e.g. I am lying.

Pun

Words with different meanings but identical sounds

Symbol

Something ordinary but brought up for significant meanings

e.g. A pigeon represent peace

Rhythm

Create sound pattern from stress and unstress syllables

e.g. Lamb → da-DUM

Internal Rhyme

Rhyme in a line

Half Rhyme

Words sound similar but don’t rhyme exactly

e.g. tongue & hung

Meter

A stressed or unstressed syllabic pattern

Rhyming Couplet

Pair of lines which have both the rhythm and the rhyme

Holophrastic sentence

A single word with the meaning of a whole sentence

e.g. Food → I’m hungry

Epizeuxis

Repeating a word or phrase without any other words splitting between.

e.g. No, no, no, no, and no

Diacope

Repeating a word or phrase with few words splitting between

Anaphora

Repeating the start phrase of each sentence

Asyndeton

Leaving out conjunction words like ‘and’ , ‘or’

Polysyndeton

Having more conjunction words than necessary

Stanza form

2: couplet, 3: tercet, 4: quatrain,

5: quintet, 6: sestet, 7: septet, 8: octave