 The repetition of the initial consonant sounds

 A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art  The most common types of Allusions are  Biblical  Mythical  Shakespearean

 The repetition of sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase  Example…. He struck a streak of bad luck.

 "From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels".

 The repetition of vowel sounds

 A writer’s or speaker’s word choice

 The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures, or images, are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement

 Describing something as though it were something else  Does not use like or as  Example: All the world’s a stage.

 The rhythmical pattern of a poem determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats in each line

 Words that imitate sound

 A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

 a thing, word, action, sound etc, that is repeated

 A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.

 The pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language

 Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter

 A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as.

 Anything that stands for or represents something else

 The writer’s attitude toward his or her subject, characters or audience

 The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

 Two seemingly opposite concepts or concrete objects are placed close together, yet still making sense

 Jumbo-Shrimp

 Looks like “a paragraph”

 An extreme exaggeration

 I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

 The central message  Is NOT one word like LOVE, HATE, etc.  One should love all living creatures because we are all in this together.