The feeling created in the reader by a poem or story using words, phrases, repetition, rhyme, and exaggeration.

Language that appeals to the five senses- touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.

A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use the words like or as.

"To repeat" something. It is the use of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, or sentence- more than once.

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several words of a line or poetry or a sentence.

An extreme exaggeration used to make a point

A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

Made up of all the tools that a poet uses to create a special effect of feeling. Includes metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia.

An important idea in a text that focuses on the deeper meaning or message the reader is meant to consider.

The use of words that sound like the noises they describe.

The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea.