| A | B |
| alliteration | "The rapids ran roughly over the rocks." |
| assonance | "I don't know why she won't buy the trifle." |
| consonance | "He determined to undo the radical changes." |
| couplet | "I have looked down the saddest city lane/And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain." |
| enjambment | "When far away an interrupted cry/Came over houses from another street." |
| internal rhyme | "The sound of a whine echoed from time to time." |
| onomatopoeia | "someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door . . ." |
| simile | "Is the soul solid like iron?" |
| metaphor | "I am drifting cloud." |
| personification | "The light wrapped its arms around me gently." |