Parts of speech
A person, place, thing, or idea
Noun
Repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words
Alliteration
Comparing using “like” or “as.”
Simile
Descriptive language appealing to the senses
Imagery
Conversations between characters that reveal personality, relationships, and move the story forward
Dialogue
An action word or a state of being
Words that imitate sounds
Onomatopoeia
Saying one thing is another
Metaphor
Reference to another text, event, or person
Allusion
Hints or clues about what will happen later
Foreshadow
A word that describes a noun
Adjective
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Personification
The opposite of what is expected (verbal, situational, or dramatic)
Placing contrasting ideas or scenes side by side
Juxtaposition
A word that describes a verb, adjective or another adverb. Often ends in - 'ly'
Adverb
Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Deliberate exaggeration
Hyperbole
Two opposite words together
Oxymoron
Using a repeated sentence structure or pattern
Parallelism
A word that takes the place of a noun
Pronoun
The beat or flow of stressed/unstressed syllables
Rhythm
An object/person/place stands for a bigger idea
Symbolism
A common expression where the meaning is different from the literal words
Idiom
Who is telling the story