| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| anaphora | repetition of a non-conjunction word to show emphasis |
| apostrophe | talking to someone as if they are present or still alive |
| asyndeton | lack of conjunctions |
| chiasmus | an ABBA pattern of words |
| enjambment | a run-on into another line of poetry - In Latin, it can sometimes be indicated by a period, colon, or semicolon |
| hyperbaton | the inversion of two words to show emphasis ("Yoda-speak") |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| litotes | the use of the negative to accentuate the positive |
| metaphor | comparison of two things without the words "like" or "as" |
| metonymy | substitution of a word for a similar word |
| onomatopoeia | word sounds like its meaning |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| polysyndeton | the repetition of conjunctions to show emphasis |
| rhetorical question | asking a question to make a dramatic effect or point without expecting an answer |
| simile | comparison of two things using "like" or "as" |
| synchesis | an ABAB pattern of words |
| tmesis | the breaking of a compound word into two separate parts |
| transferred epithet | when an adjective describes a noun other than the person or thing it's actually describing |
