| A | B |
| repetition | saying the exact words/phrase |
| apostrophe | words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary |
| allusion | usually proper noun that brings to mind a back story |
| personification | giving human traits/qualities to non human |
| parallel syntax | same grammatical structure, dancing, swimming, yelling |
| oxymoron | two contradictory terms jumbo shrimp |
| metaphor | comparison of 2 different things |
| synesthesia | mixing senses in imagery hot moon |
| simile | comparison of 2 different things using like or as |
| alliteration | repeating the consonant sounds: lush lau`ae |
| litotes | understatement-making something less than it is |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds at start or in word |
| assonance | repition of vowel sound |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| onompatopoeia | words that sound like sound |
| symbol | thing that stans for something else |
| rhyme | repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, most often at the end of lines in poems |
| metonymy | person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it |
| end rhyme | correspondence of sound between words at the endings of words |