1. Allusion · “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s
Allusion · “I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.” This refers to the story of Pinocchio, where his nose grew whenever he told a lie. -“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.” Romeo was a character in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, and was very romantic in expressing his love for Juliet.

2. Apostrophe “Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”

3. Apostrophe cont’d “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.” “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

4. Juxtaposition “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”

5. Juxtapostion cont’d A butler spends his days in a beautiful mansion dressed in a tuxedo, but returns home to a closet-sized apartment in a rundown part of town. Example 1 juxtaposes two settings: a wealthy person’s mansion and a poor butler’s apartment. Such juxtaposition serves to highlight just how different the butler’s quality of living is from his employer’s.

6. Repetition
I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay.

7. Assonance
  The light of the fire is a sight. (repetition of the long i sound)
“Men sell the wedding bells.” (repetition of short e)
“He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.”

8. Consonance in sentences. Mike likes his new bike
Consonance in sentences. *Mike likes his new bike. *I will crawl away from the ball. *He stood on the road and cried. *Toss the glass, boss.

9. Consonance cont’d in Poetry I'll swing by my ankles
Consonance cont’d in Poetry I'll swing by my ankles. She'll cling to your knees. As you hang by your nose, From a high-up trapeze. But just one thing, please, As we float through the breeze, Don't sneeze. -The Acrobats by Shel Silverstein

10. Rhyme Scheme I wandered lonely as a cloud (A) That floats on high o’er vales and hills, (B) When all at once I saw a crowd (A) A host, of golden daffodils; (B) Beside the lake, beneath the trees, (C) Fluttering and dancing in the breeze (C)

11. Rhyme Scheme cont’d Twinkle, twinkle, little star, (A) How I wonder what you are. (A) Up above the world so high, (B) Like a diamond in the sky. (B)

12. Poetic Inversion The ocean blue To the store, I will go
Poetic Inversion The ocean blue To the store, I will go. A cat, fluffy and fat My teacher, kind and generous Writes the girl

13. From The Hobbit: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
From The Hobbit: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. From Star Wars: (Yoda is a master of inversion) Agree with you, the council does. Your apprentice, young Skywalker will be.

14. The term extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.

15. Extended Metaphor