| Personification | | Words that express the five senses |
| Denotation | | Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtapostion of words which contradict one another |
| Assonance | | Addressing someone absent or dead as if they were alive |
| Simile | | Using something to represent something else |
| Alliteration | | Obvious exaggeration |
| Oxymoron | | Words that sound like the words they make |
| Rhythm | | Comparing two unlike objects |
| Cliche | | Repitition of the same sound in words close to each other |
| Hyperbole | | A mode of expression through words |
| Metonymy | | Underlying meaning/implicit meaning |
| Metaphor | | The close repetition of the same end consonants |
| Imagry | | Overused phrase or saying |
| Consonance | | Giving human characteristics to animals and other objects |
| Connotation | | Saying less that one means |
| Apostrophe | | An artistic device |
| Repetition | | Words that start with the same sound |
| Symbolism | | Using something closely related to the actual thing meant |
| Understatement | | Regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem |
| Irony | | Comparing two unlike objects using like or as |
| Onomatopoeia | | Dictionary Definition |