| Term | Definition |
|---|
| onomatopoeia | "...suddenly there came a tapping... p. 940 "The Raven" by E.A.Poe |
| alliteration | "...for if dreams die..." p. 904 "Dreams" by Langston Hughes |
| consonance | "...poor faces,/ smelling a deep and sinister unrest these brooding people cautiously caress:..." p. 915 "Memory" by Margaret Walker |
| assonance | "...living in distress. p. 915 "Memory" by Margaret Walker |
| meter | Mary had a little lamb./It's fleece was white as snow. |
| repetition | "...Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." p. 946 from As You Like It by William Shakespeare |
| rhyme | "...but little thought /What wealth the show to me had brought:" p. 898 "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth |
| simile | "I came umong these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountain. William Wordsworth |
| metaphor | "Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." p. 905 Dreams by Langston Hughes |
| personification | "This City now doth, like a garment, wear/ The beauty of the morning. William Wordsworth |
| apostrophe | "London, 1802 Milton! thous shouldst be linging at this hour: England hath need of thee:...William Wordsworth |
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