| Term | Definition |
| personification | giving human traits to inanimate objects |
| apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imaginary being addressed as if it could reply |
| alliteration | repitition of a consonant sound in consecutive words |
| irony | words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| metonymy | using the name of an object to identify something else related to that object |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| dialogue | direct conversation between two character |
| consonance | repetition of final consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |