front 1 Alliteration | back 1 the repetition of syllable-initial consonant sounds within a group of words. |
front 2 Imagery | back 2 the use of vivid descriptions to create a mental image in the reader’s mind. |
front 3 Metaphor | back 3 a figure of speech that compares two things, usually by stating that one thing is another. |
front 4 Personification | back 4 a figure of speech that attributes human characteristics, emotion, and behavior to animals and inanimate objects or ideas. |
front 5 Refrain | back 5 a sound, word, phrase, or line repeated regularly in a poem |
front 6 Rhyme | back 6 a repetition of similar sounds at the end of two or more consecutive sentences. |
front 7 Simile | back 7 a rhetorical device used to compare two things using the words “like”, “as”, or “than.” |
front 8 Stanzas | back 8 A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph. |
front 9 Repetition | back 9 When words are repeated in order to make a stronger impact on the reader. |
front 10 Oxymoron | back 10 a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. |
front 11 Onomatopoeia | back 11 a type of word that sounds like what it does. |
front 12 Hyperbole | back 12 Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. |
front 13 Pun | back 13 A pun is a joke based on the interplay of homophones — words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. |
front 14 Figurative Language | back 14 Figurative language is a literary device that uses words or phrases for effect, humorous, or exaggeration purposes, instead of their literal translation. |