1. By: Yazmin Cortez

2. Irony
A contrast or incongruity between what is stated and what is meant (verbal irony), or between what is expected t happen and what actually happens (irony of situation).
Examples:
“How nice !” when I said I had to work all weekend.

3. Analogy
An explanation or description of something unfamiliar or difficult to explain by comparison with something familiar.
Examples:
Passed away for died.
Perspire for sweat

4. Hyperbole Exaggeration to create an effect. Examples:
I was to surprised, you could have knocked me over with my father
I would rather die than eat brussels sprous.

5. Paradox
Holding contradictory ideas together in order to point to a deeper truth.
Examples:
"The silence of midnight, to speak truly, though apparently a paradox, rung in my ears"

6. Simile Comparison between two things using “like or as.” Examples:
“My love is like a red, red rose.”
My hair is long like Juanita’s hair.
I’m free as a bird.

7. Metaphor
A direct comparison between two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as.”
Examples:
The sun was a ball of fire.
“Life is but an empty dream.”

8. Rhythm When words have the same sounds. Examples:
“Happy the man who, safe, on shore.
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright.

9. Alliteration
The repetition of the name consonant sounds in lines of poetry or prose.
Examples:
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,”- Langston Hughes.

10. Imagery
The use of words or phrase the evoke the sensations of sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste.
Examples:

11. Onomatopoeia Words whose sounds suggests their meaning. Examples:
“The moan of doves in immemorial elms, and murmuring of innumerable bees.”

12. Personification Giving human qualitles to something not human.
Examples:
“As she song softy at the evil face of the full moon.”

13. Protagonist Is the main character in the story. Examples:
Batman, Superman

14. Antagonist
a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
Examples:
The joker is the antagonist in batman
The green goblin is the antagonist In spiderman.

15. Flashback Is a memory or a dream. Examples:
I still remember the juicy main goal when I was little.
I remember the lunch that my mom just to do when I was small.

16. Foreshadowing
Is the way an author puts in clues as to how plot is going to develop.
Examples: