3. PERSONIFICATION AN ANIMAL GIVEN HUMAN –LIKE QUALITIES OR AN OBJECT GIVEN LIFE-LIKE QUALITIES. Example : The boat hugging the shore

4. ALLITERATION CONSONANT SOUNDS REPEATED AT THE BEGINNING OF WORDS EXAMPLE :Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves

5. ASSONANCE REPEATED VOWEL SOUNDS IN A LINE OR LINES OF POETRY.

6. HYPERBOLE EXAGGERATION OFTEN USED FOR EMPHASIS EXAMPLE: I’m so tried I could sleep for a year

7. ONOMATOPOEIA WORDS THAT IMITATE THE SOUND THEY ARE NAMING EXAMPLE : BUZZ

8. METAPHOR A DIRECT COMPARISON OF TWO UNLIKE THI NG EXAMPLE: MY MIND IS A OCEAN ;MY WORDS ARE A RIVER

9. SIMILE A COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS USING ‘’ LIKE’’ OR ‘’AS’’. EXAMPLE: MY MIND IS A OCEAN ;IT’S AS SMOOTH AS JAZZ

10. Imagery Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste or smell.

11. Idiom An expression where the literal meaning of the words.

12. Consonance