Allegory - A narrative or visual representation, such as a story, poem, or picture, can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message.
Allusion - refers to a person, event, or thing from another text.
Apostrophe - a speech or address to a person who is not present or a personified object.
Aside - a speech delivered to the audience; and the other characters cannot hear.
Assonance - when words repeat the same vowel sound.
Elegy - a poem of serious reflection, typically lamenting the dead.
Euphemism - a mild or indirect word to replace a harsher word.
Hyperbole - an exaggeration as a rhetorical device.
Invocation - a calling onto a deity for help or inspiration.
Metaphor - a figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object which is not literally applicable.
Oxymoron - a figure of speech where two opposite/contradictory words are placed next to each other.
Parody - an imitation of the style of a particular writer.
Personification - the attribution of human characteristics to things, ideas, etc. that are non-human.
Rhyme scheme - a poet’s deliberate pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines.
Syntax - the word order, tense, subject-verse agreement, and sentence structure employed to create an effect in writing.
Understatement - a literary device where a particular quality is downplayed or presented less than the true situation.