| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | using the same sound to start a series of words. |
| repetition | repeats the same words, phrases or lines that are in close proclimity or at the end of each stanza. |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration. |
| allusion | something mentioned that the reader is presumed to be familiar with. |
| sensory language | appeals to the 5 senses: hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling. |
| imagery | a word or mental picture of something that is not human or present. |
| personification | giving human or living qualities to something that's not human. |
| metaphor | comparison where one thing is another. |
| similie | comparison using like or as. |
| Calvin Klien | ex. of alliteration |
| why, why, why | ex. of repetition |
| I'm so hungry I could eat a horse | ex. of hyperbole |
| as outcast as Adam from paradise | ex. of allusion |
| The crunchy apple oozed with the sweet juice. | ex. of sensory language |
| the trees were full of the squawking, brightly colored, parrots | ex. of imagery |
| the airplane laughed at the ant-like cars below | ex. of personification |
| the bubble was a beam of light, making a path for me to follow | ex. of metaphor |
| the child was like a cloud just going with the flow. | ex. of similie |
