By: Megan Burdett

Mrs. Avery’s Block

ASSONANCE•Definition: The repetition of vowel sounds.

•Example: – “Thou foster child of silence

and slow time”

ALLITERATION

•Definition: The repetition of initial constant sounds.

• Example:– “Rain reigns roughly through the day.

Raging anger from the skyPartners prattle of tormented tearsFrom clouds wondering whyLightning tears their souls apart.”

METAPHOR• Definition: A

comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them (does not use like or as).

• Example: – “Sunshine, hope

aglow, Streams from heaven's storeBringing smiles of warming graceWhich lighten heavy loads.

– Clouds are ships in full sailRacing across the sky-blue sea.”

HYPERBOLE• Definition: Exaggeration for dramatic

effect.

• Example: – “Giants standing tall as mountains

Towering over midgetsBring eyes above the common groundTo heights no longer small.

Arms of tree trunks wrapIn comfort gentle, softnessUnthought-of due to size,Yet welcomed in their strength.”

SIMILE•Definition: A comparison between two objects using a word or comparison such as “like” or “as”.

•Example: –“Notes dance across the page like stars twinkle in the night sky”

PERSONIFICATION• Definition: A figure of speech which

describes animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities.

• Example: – “Love smiled on him. Love walked right in and stole the

shadows away. The sea that bares her bosom to the

moon.

Death stand above me, whispering low.”

IMAGERY• Definition: Words or phrases that appeal

to any sense or any combination of senses.

• Examples: – “Drip of ruby teardrops

to wake up where the green grass grows lips like cool sweet tea streaming through a velvet sky the stench of the underworld”