Alliteration The use of two or more words, consecutively or closes to consecutively, with the same continent sound at the beginning of the word.
(Ex. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, 'weak and weary'"- Edgar Allen Poe)
Assonance The use of repeated Vowel sounds.
(Ex. Always Assonance, or Away for a Day)
Imagery Painting a picture with words
(Ex. `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves'- Lewis Carroll)
Inversion When a poet or Writer changes the order of words.
(Ex. "Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;"- John Donne)
Metaphor Comparing something to something else.
(Ex. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"- William Shakespeare)
Onomatopoeia a word that sounds like the word is or a sound word (Ex. Bang Boom, Harmony)
Personification Comparing a non human thing to a human, or something a human does.
(Ex. The Leaves Danced)
Rhythm The patterns of stressed and non-stressed syllables, long and short words.
("Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"- Robert Frost)
Simile comparison using like or as.
("She walks in beauty, like the night"-Lord Byron)
Symbolism When something represents, or symbolizes, something else. (Eagle Represents the USA)
