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Giving non-living things human qualities, including physical, emotional, and spiritual.
Personification
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
A question whose answer is obvious or implied.
Rhetorical Question
A comparison between two unlike things as though they were similar -- usually with the words "like" or "as".
Simile
Finish the Lyric: Just a city boy
born and raise in South Detroit
Repeating a word or expression while adding more detail to it.
Amplification
Implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one things is another
Involves repeating words in reverse order within a sentence or sentence pair.
Antimetabole
Where a speaker or writer asks a question and then immediately answers it.
Hyphophora
With your head in your hands, you're nothing more than his wife.
Involves repeating a word or phrase in quick succession, usually within the same sentence, to add emphasis or vehemence.
Epizeuxis
Repetition at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Epistrophe
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole
Omitting of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. Meant to put emphasis on a certain speech
Asyndeton
I miss ya, I miss ya, I really wanna kiss you but I can't
Six-seven-eight, triple nine, eight-two-one-two (678-999-8212)
Repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses.
Anaphora
Involves repeating a word or phrase at the end of one sentence or clause and at the beginning of the next.
Anadiplosis
The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning; being redundant.
Pleonasm
"I think, therefore I am"
Parallelism
I be yellin' out, "Money over everything"
Money on my mind, then she wanna ask when it got so empty
Using similar or repeated grammatical structure across words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, creating balance, rhythm, and clarity, making ideas easier to grasp and remember
Parallelism
A speaker or writer anticipates and answers an opponent's objections before they can be raised.
Procatalepsis
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
Allusion
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"
Antimetabole
Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all