Definitions
The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity.
Alliteration
Dr. Bert put the lettuce in the cart is an example of:
Consonance
What is a simile?
A direct comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
the purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect.
Repetition
Love conquers fate.
Theme
the use of vivid language to evoke images
Imagery
Dunkin' Donuts
Alliteration
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions.
Personification
The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.
Imagery
Exaggeration
Hyperbole
Her long hair was a flowing golden river
Metaphor
Syntax
The repetition of the sound of a vowel
the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
Tone
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
Personification
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose
Stanza
You were as brave as a lion
Simile
Understatement
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
where the poet chooses to end a line
Line Breaks
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
An implied or indirect reference to something assumed to be known, such as a historical event or person, a well-known quotation from literature, an event or person from the Bible, a famous work of art, or a reference to popular culture.
Allusion
June, Moon
Rhyme
Enjambment
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.
the use of symbols to represent larger ideas or qualities.
Symbolism
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. "Oh, woeful, oh woeful, woeful, woeful day!"
Repetition