Assonance
Repetition of the same vowel sounds in the middle of a word (wild and lie)
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like their meanings (buzz, crack, hiss)
Alliteration
repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of the words (The blubbering baby had a blue bear)
Rhyme scheme
The way of identifying rhyme in a poem
Imperfect Rhyme
When a poem doesn't rhyme exactly but it's close
Irony
Saying the opposite to what is true (war is kind)
Understatement
Saying less than is true, minimizing (after car crash-at least I won't have to repair that scratch on the hood)
Hyperbole
Saying more than is true, exaggeration (he wore his fingers to the bone)
Literary allusion
Reference to a
person, place or thing from
literature
Apostrophe
ddressing an abstract object as a person (World, tell me your pain)
Personification
Giving human qualities to things (the trees dance)
Simile
two unlike things compared using like or as (love is like a rose)
Metaphor
two unlike things directly compared (love IS a rose)