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| hyperbole | exaggerations made for emphasis or humorous effect |
| imagery | details that appeal to a reader's five senses |
| metaphor | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as |
| onomotopoeia | a word that represents or imitates natural sound |
| oxymoron | a combination of contradictory terms |
| paradox | a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but does not |
| personification | giving human characteristics to something non-human |
| rhyme scheme | lower case letters of the alphabet are assigned to each line to mark this pattern or sequence |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as |
| symbol | a person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself |
| alliteration | repetition of the FIRST letter or initial sound in many words in a line |
| allusion | an indirect reference in one literary work to a character or theme in another |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line |
| consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line |
| flashback | action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding |
| analogy | the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship; hot:cold as fire:ice |
| symbol | using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning |
| irony | an implied difference between what is said and what is meant or between what is expected and what actually happens |
| euphony | soothing pleasant sounds |
| cacophy | harsh, discordant sounds |
| connotation | an implied meaning of a word based on the feelings or interpretation of the reader |
| denotation | the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning |
| apostrophe | addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present |
| conceit | A far-fetched simile or metaphor, a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things |
