Sounds
Words used to describe sounds
Onomatopeia
The pattern of rhymes in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
Comparison using "like" or "as"
Simile
This heat is killing me!
Hyperbole
Tone
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a character or a subject
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
A unit of measure in a poem
Foot
A figure of speech that makes a comparison
Metaphor
I've been to the dentist many times, so I know the drill.
Pun
Irony
That which is expected or to be the case differs radically from what is actually the case
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together
Assonance
An extended metaphor that makes a complex comparison
Conceit
Assigning human qualities to non-human entities
Personification
I am the words written in a novel, poem as well as those that are spoken upon all the world's stages.
Diction
Analogy
A comparison that highlights the points in common between what is being compared.
A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Meter
A pause within a line of poetry
Caesura
References to another text
Allusion
Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows into the world.
Imagery
Anaphora
Repetition of words or phrases in poetry and speeches
The use of words with harsh sounds to convey an unpleasant feeling
Cacophony
The running on of thought from one line to the next without a syntactic break
Enjambment
Describing the sensations or characteristics associated with one sense to something normally not associated with that sense. "I could smell his fear."
Synesthesia
Macbeth speaking to the ghosts that haunt him. Hamlet speaking to a skull. A player upon a stage speaking to his long lost love.
Apostrophe
Connotation
The implied or suggested meaning of a word