Imagery referring to sight
Visual
The number of common types of irony
Three
Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words
Alliteration
Words based on how they sound
"The cow goes moo."
Onomatopoeia
The measure of formality in a written text
Register
Imagery referring to sound
Auditory
Saying one thing and meaning the opposite
Verbal Irony
Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Giving human attributes to something not human
"The sea was angry that day."
Personification
Type of writing which is based on structured paragraphs and sentences; NOT poetry.
Prose
Imagery referring to touch
Tactile
The outcome of an event is different than what would be expected
Situational Irony
Repetition of similar sounding final syllables
Rhyme
Extreme exaggeration
"This is the greatest Jeopardy question ever!!!"
Hyperbole
A character in a narrative who represents the opposite traits of another
Foil
Imagery referring to taste
Gustatory
The audience knows something that a character does not
Dramatic Irony
Repetition of words at the beginning of successive phrases
Anaphora
Expressing an affirmative by using a negative as a form of understatement
"The movie wasn't too bad."
Litotes
A measure of the repeated sequence of two or more syllables, accented or unaccented, in poetry; strangely named after a body part
A Foot/Poetic Foot
Imagery referring to smell
Olfactory
A rare fourth type of irony named after a Greek philosopher.
Socratic Irony
Repetition of the same conjunction
Polysyndeton
Using a part of something to refer to the whole
"May I take your hand in marriage?"
Synecdoche
A type of novel about going from childhood to adulthood and the changes that occur; "coming of age"
Bildungsroman