| A | B |
| figurative language | The use of words, symbols and ideas to invoke mental images. |
| symbol | An image transferred by something that stands for or represents something else. |
| personification | Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. |
| alliteration | The repitition of initial or beginning sounds. |
| consonance | The repitition of ending consonant sounds. |
| hyperbole | An overstatement or exaggeration. |
| assonance | The repitition of vowel sounds within words. |
| internal rhyme | Middle rhyme; rhyme occuring in one line of poetry |
| onomatopoeia | Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects. |
| end rhyme | Rhyme occuring at the end of two different lines. |