English

• Simile

  Describing something using ”like” or “as”
• Imagery

  Very clear descriptions to appeal to the senses
• Repetition

  The repeating of two or more words
• Alliteration

  The repetition of the first letter in a sequence of words
• Metaphor

  Describing something as something it is not (figure of speech)
• Personification

  Giving an object human characteristics
• Enjambment

  The continuation of one line of a verse into the next line without a pause
• Rhyme

  Two or more words that sound the same
• Rhythm

  The beat or “flow” of a poem
• Onomatopoeia

  A word that imitates the sound it makes
• Rhetorical techniques


  • Power of three
  • Emotive language
  • Rhetorical questions
  • Say again
  • Undermine opposing
  • Anecdote
  • Direct address
  • Exaggeration