| A | B |
| metaphor | words that show silimarites but not using like or as |
| similie | showing comparisions using like or as |
| dialect | words spoken with a different accent than yours |
| symbols | pictures used to communicate instead of words |
| verbal irony | Saying one thing but meaning another |
| situational irony | doing one thing but meaning something else |
| dramatic irony | where the reader knows what going to happen before the character |
| personification | giving human like qualities to unhuman objects |
| alliteration | the repeating of beginning sounds for effect |
| onomatopoeia | using words to imitate sounds |
| susie picked sea shells on the shore | example of alliteration |
| swish, swish, swish | an example of onomatopoeia |
| The Landlady's guest book | an example of Dramatic Irony |
| we know the old man in, "Tell, Tale Heart" is crazy | an example of Situational Irony |
| The old man telling us that he is NOT crazy | an example of Verbal Irony |
| a stop light | an example of a symbol |
| a Southerner talking to a New Yorker | an example of dialect |
| her face was angelic like an angel | an example of a simile |
| teeth herded together | an example of a metaphor |
| The sun dripped of warmth | an example of personification |