| A | B |
|---|
| allusion | reference to something in prior literature or history |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | comparison that does not use like or as |
| personification | giving human qualities to unliving things |
| apostrophe | addressing the deceased or an inanimate object as if it were alive and could answer |
| irony | a discrepency |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| alliteration | when two words near each other have the same beginning consonant sound |
| imagery | figurative language that makes us see, smell, hear, taste, and/or touch |
| onomatopoeia | use of a word or words whose sounds imitate the sound of the thing spoken about |
