| Term | Definition |
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| metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. A metaphor is stronger than a comparison |
| simile | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds using the words " like or "as" |
| Personification | giving human like atributes or personal nature to inanimate or non- human things. This is a poetic device that brings poems to life |
| Alliteration | The use of a same consonant at the begining of each stressed sylable of a line or verse |
| Imagery | The ability to form mental images of things or events |
| Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| Euphamisim | A word or phrase that stands in for another word or phrase, chosen to mask or soften the true meaning of what is being expressed |
| Pathetic Fallacy | When nature mimics human characteristics |
| Assonance | the repitition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| Consonance | The repition of consonants at the ends of words |
| Internal rhyme | A rhyme in which one of the rhyming words is within the line of poetry and the other is at the end of the same line/ within the next line |
| Paradox | A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true |
| Oxymoron | A phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect |
| Aphostrophe | A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistant person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding |
| synechdoche | A rhetorical figure in which part is substituted for the whole. |
| metononymy | a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
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