Figurative Language
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It refers to a technique a writer uses to produce a special effect in their writing.
Literary Device
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Simile
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Alliteration
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Personification
It is something that you can hear through your mind’s ears.
Auditory Imagery
It is a phrase or word having different meanings than its literal meanings.
Figure of Speech
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Metaphor
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Onomatopoeia
It is not limited to only visual sensations, but also refers to igniting kinesthetic, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, thermal and auditory sensations as well.
Imagery
It is something that you can touch through your mind’s skin.
Tactile Imagery
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Hyperbole
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
Irony
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
Oxymoron
It is a picture in words; something that is concrete and can be seen
Visual Imagery
It is something that depicts temperature
Thermal Imagery
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Apostrophe
It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.
Allusion
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
Anaphora
It is is something that you can taste through your mind’s tongue.
Gustatory Imagery
It is is something that suggests sensation and feeling
Erotic Imagery
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole for a part
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
Understatement
It is something that you can smell through your mind’s nose
Olfactory Imagery
It describes the actions and movements of people or objects.
Kinesthetic Imagery