| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Allegory | a story, play, poem, picture or other work in which the characters and events represent particular qualities of ideas, related to morality, religion or politics |
| Allusion | somethings that is said or written that intentionally makes you think of a particular thing or person |
| Hyperbole | a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound bigger, better, more than what they are |
| Metaphor | an expression which describes a person or object in a literary way by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics to the person or object you are trying to describe |
| Metonymy | when something is referred to by a word which describes a quality or feature of that thing |
| Personification | to treat something as if it were in the form of a human being |
| Simile | an expression comparing one thing with another, always has "as" or "like" |
| Symbol | something that is used to represent a quality or idea |
| Understatement | to state or describe something in a way that makes it feel less important, serious, bad than it really is |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole. |
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