Author's Craft Practice and Review

a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things and draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as.”

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics.

• imagery

• metaphor

• hyperbole

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written

• repetition

• alliteration

• allusion

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

• hyperbole

• allusion

• imagery

when a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

• allusion

• alliteration

• assonance

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• hyperbole

• imagery

• personification

in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

• alliteration

• assonance

• allusion

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

• alliteration

• assonance

• allusion

a set expression or a phrase that is not interpreted literally. The phrase is understood to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would imply

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• hyperbole