| A | B |
| Simile | Comparison made with like, as, resembles, seems that, similar to |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implicit camperison is made between two different things without the use of like, as resembles, seems |
| Personification | Giving human abilitied or charactoristics to inanimate objects, animals, of ideas |
| Anthropomorphism | Human charactoristics given to a non-human |
| Aliteration | repetition of the same consonant sound |
| Consonance | The repition of consonants in a consonant pattern especially at the end of som words |
| Assonance | Repetition of the same vowel sound |
| Onomatopoeia | Words whose sounds imitate what they are trying to explain |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration for rhetorical effect |
| Tone | the writter of speaker's attitude toward his subject, audience, or himself |
| Allusion | Reference to something in previous literation or history |
| Dramatic Situation | the plot of the poem (what's happening) |
| Irony | A way of speaking or writing where the person means the opposite of what it means |