general
The comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is Simile?
The way of presenting events that occurred earlier than the current time in a narrative.
What is Flashback?
The words that give human qualities to non-human things
What is Personification?
The Visually descriptive Language
What is imagery
The generally regular pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in poetry
What is Meter?
The implied comparison of two different things is accomplished by saying one thing is the other thing.
What is a Metaphor?
the repetition of similar consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
The reference to something that you are not explicitly talking about.
What are allusions?
The phrase or opinion that is overused
What is Cliche?
The repetition of consonant sounds
What is consonance?
The expression that has meaning other than the literal one
What is an Idiom?
The deliberate exaggeration in order to make a point
What is Hyperbole?
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is Symbolism?
The the figure of speech in which one object or idea takes the place of another with which it has a close association
What is metonymy?
The mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt
What is Euphamism?
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is Assonance?
The more subtle comparison; the terms being compared are not so specifically explained.
What is an implied metaphor?
The person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
What is antithesis?
The figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or vice-versa.
What is Synecdoche?
The form of an ironic remark, somewhat rooted in humor, that is intended to mock or satirize something
What is sarcasm?
The figure of speech that combines two opposite ideas
What is an Oxymoron?
The use a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
The elaborate comparison of unlike subjects
What is a Homeric Simile?
The rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses
What is Anaphora?
The figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is.
What is an understatement?