| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | repetition of consonants |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| enjambment | run on |
| end stop | no punctuation to end a line |
| first person | I |
| simile | comparison with as or like |
| metaphor | comparison where part is left out |
| imperative | command |
| irony | contrast between what is said and what is meant |
| verb | doing word |
| onomatopoeia | words sound like what they describe |
| oxymoron | combining two contradictory terms |
| personification | animals or things described as human |
| pun | a play on words |
| rhetorical question | not a real request for information |
| rhyme | patterns of similar sounds |
| sibilance | recurrence of s sounds |
