| A | B |
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| Alliteration | the repetition of the initial sound in a series of words |
| Assonance | the repetition of the vowel sound in a series of words |
| Rhyme | the repetition of the last sound in a series of words |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| Simile | figurative language that makes a comparison between two unlike things using "like", "as", or "than" |
| Metaphor | figurative language that compares two unlike things without using "like", "as", or "than" |
| Idiom | an expression that is particular to a culture or group of people |
| Personification | giving inanimate objects human characteristics |
| Oxymoron | combining two unlike terms |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration typically meant to be humorous |
| Understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contast |
| visual imagery | a concrete picture you can see |
| Synesthesia | describing one sense with a word associated with another sense |
| auditory imagery | a concrete picture you can hear |
| ofactory imagery | a concrete picture you can smell |
| tactile imagery | a concrete picture you can toucj |
| gustatory imagery | a concrete image you can taste |
| allusion | brings to mind a previous story, song, famous event |
| repition | repeating the same word |
| parallel syntax | repeating the same grammatical patters |
