| A | B |
| Figurative Language | The use of words, symbols and ideas to invoke mental images. |
| hyperbole | an overstatement or exaggeration. |
| personification | Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. |
| symbol | an image transferred by something that stands for or represents something else. |
| alliteration | The repition of initial or beginning sounds. |
| assonance | The repitition of vowel sounds within words. |
| consonance | The repition of ending consonant sounds. |
| end rhyme | A rhyme occuring in the last word(s) of one line of poetry to another. |
| internal rhyme | Middle rhyme; rhyme occuring in one line of poetry. |
| onomatopoeia | Words which imitate sounds. |