Comparison
A phrase that uses the words "like" or "as" to describe someone or something by comparing it with something else.
What is Simile?
The repetition of the same or similar sounds occurring in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs.
What is Rhyme?
A list of diverse things to create a rhetorical effect emphasizing the unity of those diverse things. This strengthens the importance of the ideas in a text by showing the diversity of the list and the central unifying idea that brings them all together.
What is Catalogue?
Extreme exaggeration; language that describes something as better or worse than it really is.
What is Hyperbole?
A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest comparison between them.
What is Metaphor?
The repetition of the sounds that are ALMOST the same, occurring in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems or songs.
What is Slant Rhyme?
The repetition of two or more clauses that have the same grammatical structure; the repeated structure (or syntax) creates a linkage between the words or ideas they contain.
What is Parallel Structure?
A comparative technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions, etc., are placed side by side in a text for the purpose of developing contrast between them.
A literary device that repeats the beginning sound in a sequence of words.
What is Alliteration?
The repetition of words or a phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses; the content of the repeated word/phrase is emphasized and its repetition links those words/phrases.
What is Anaphora?
The use of an object or image to represent something by invoking the metaphorical meaning of that object or image in a different context.
What is Symbolism?
The repetition of vowels sounds within words, creating internal rhymes
What is Assonance?
In poetry, the continuation of a sentence across more than one line without a pause at the end of a line, couplet, or stanza; shapes the rhythm of a line as well as emphasizing line end & beginning words.
What is Enjambment?
A highly elaborate figure of speech an extended simile or metaphor, that forms an ingenious or fanciful parallel between apparently dissimilar or incongruous objects or situations.
What is a Conceit?
The repetition of consonant sounds within words (in places other than first letter alliteration)
What is Consonance?
The repetition of words or a phrase at the end of successive phrases or clauses; the repeated word/phrase is emphasized and its repetition links the words/phrases that it introduces.
What is Epistrophe?