| A | B |
| alliteration | repitition of initial consent sounds in words |
| aspotrophe | not expecting answer, but dramatic effect (O Captain My Captin) |
| assonance | repitition of vowel sounds without repetition |
| ballad | 1don't know |
| elegy | 2don't know |
| concrete poetry | 3don't know |
| metaphore | (no word of comparison is used) comparison of 2 unlike things using like + as |
| oxymoron | combination of contradictory terms |
| personification | giving human qualities to non human things |
| simile | comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as |
| symbol | 4don't know |
| hyperbole | an overstatement |
| onomotopia | use of word whose sound sugests meaning |
| theme | statement of work trying to get across to reader |
| tone | overall feeling -writer's effect |
| paradox | statement that seems contrary to common sense yet true |
| refrain | Repitition of a line-phrase of poem at regular intervals |