english- language devices

Alliteration

Words start with the same sound

Metaphor

figure of speech that describes something by saying it’s something else

Hyperbole

Exaggerating for a purpose

Rule of three

three words that go together to convey a single concept

Onomatopoeia

A word which sounds like what it means

Personification

Giving an inanimate object human feelings or actions

Superlative

Used to compare things and say which one is the biggest, strongest, fastest

Oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings