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| alliteration | the repetition of consonants |
| assonance | a chiming (rhyme) of the vowel sounds |
| consonance | a pattern of identical sounds created by consonants |
| cacophony | a sucession of harsh, slow moving syllables |
| euphony | a succession of light harmonious syllables |
| hyperbole | a gross exaggeration for effect, overstatement |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substitution |
| onomatopoeia | the imitation of natural sounds in words; the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning |
| paradox | a statement or concept which appears self-contradictory, but underlines a basis of truth |
| personification | a figure of speech that gives inanimate objects human qualities |
| rhyme | an identity of sounds at the end of lines of verse |
| single rhyme | masculine rhyme, rhyme in the last syllable of the line |
| double rhyme | feminene rhyme; rhyme in the last two syllables of the line |
| triple rhyme | rhyme in the last three syllables of the line, used for comic or satiric verse |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line of verse as well as at the end |
| half-rhymes/slant rhymes | similar sounds repeated at the end of lines or within lines |
| simile | a direct comparison of two unlike objects, using "like" or "as" |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole object or idea |
