| A | B |
|---|
| SIMILE | Comparison using as or like. |
| metaphor | Comparison that says something is something else and it cannot be true. |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to non human objects. |
| SYMBOLISM | An act, object, or event that represents something else. |
| HYPERBOLE | An exaggeration used to create effect. |
| cliche | A time worn or overused expression. |
| Pun | A humorous use of a word where the word can have two meanings (a play on words). |
| Irony | A discrepancy between what is expected and what actually happens. When the last expected to happens does. |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | An action or object is named by imitating its sound. A sound word. |
| EUPHEMISM | To use a pleasant word or phrase to avoid talking about unpleasant reality. |
| IDIOM | A phrase who’s meaning cannot be determined by the literal definition |
| OXYMORON | An expression that combines contradictory or opposite ideas |
| ALLITERATION | The repetition of the same sound or letter usually at the beginning of words. |
| ASSONANCE | The repetition of words that have the same vowel sound. |
| CONSANANCE | The repetition of words that have the same consonant sound. |
| DENOTATION | The definition meaning of a word or phrase |
| CONNOTATION | Implied meaning of a word or phrase |
