FIGURES OF SPEECH

• Comparison using as/like

  Simile
• Comparison without as/like

  Metaphor
• Repetition of initial sound in words

  Alliteration
• Repetition of vowel sounds in words

  Assonance
• Repetition of consonant sounds in words

  Consonance
• Words describing sounds

  Onomatopoeia
• The use of description to create image

  Imagery
• Use of objects to create image

  Symbolism
• Repetition of words

  Repetition
• Repetition of initial word(s) in lines

  Anaphora
• Repetition of phrase throughout poem

  Refrain
• Single sentence continued in many lines.

  Enjambment
• Changed word order

  Inversion
• Non-human personified

  Personification
• Exaggeration for emphasis

  Hyperbole
• Opposite consecutive words

  Oxymoron
• Two opposite ideas in a line

  Antithesis
• A part represent the whole (or vice versa )

  Synecdoche
• Word describing the adjacent noun

  Epithet
• Word describing another noun

  Transferred epithet