Poetry

Diction

Figures of speech and rhymes

1. Simile: direct comparison using a comparitive term such as "like" or "as"

2. Metaphor: indirect comparison

3. Personification: giving human qualities or giving life to something

4. Alliteration: repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word

5. Assonance: repetition of a vowel sound

6. Consonance: repetition of a consonant sound

7. Apostrophe: adressing someone directy; calling out to someone

8. Hyperbole: exagerating something (ex: There were 5 million cars on the road tonight.)

9. Oxymoron: putting two opposite ideas together (ex: cruel kindness)

10. Connotation: suggestive meaning (ex: cool means hip, nice, good)

11. Denotation: litterary meaning (ex: cool means not warm)

12. Concreteness

13. Abstractness

14. Level of language (ex: child is formal, kid is informal, squirt is slang)

15. Imagery: relates to the five senses; sound, sight, touch, taste, smell

16. Irony

17. Symbolism

18. Pun: fun use of language (ex: An elevator makes ghosts happy because it lifts the spirits; I should have been sad when my flashlight batteries died, but I was delighted)

19. Euphony: pleasant or harmonious succession of words/sounds

20. Cacaphony: harsh discordance of sounds

21. Onomatopeia (ex: the buzzing of the bees)