English definitions

• Antagonist - someone who opposes another person's actions or ideas
• Dramatic Irony - when the audience knows something the characters dont
• Metaphor is a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated.
• onomatopoeia - when a word sounds like its meaning, e.g. bang, boom, pop
• Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound in words that are in close proximity to each other.
• Personification is when human qualities are given to non-human objects or animals.
• Simile is a figure of speech involving a comparison with 'like' or 'as'.
• Oxymoron is a combination of contradictory terms (e.g. jumbo shrimp).
• Sibilance is the use of sss sounds together to create a sense of hissing or whispering.
• Hyperbole is exaggerating something for effect.