1. the literal meaning of a word
denotation
the literal meaning of a word
Example:
Home: where you live

2. Home: a place where we find security, love, family and comfort.
connotation
the associations and emotional meaning that go beyond the literal meaning of a word.
Example:
Home: a place where we find security, love, family and comfort.

3. imagery
Using words or figurative language to create sensory impressions, or mental pictures, of objects, feelings, sounds or ideas.
As the last seconds ticked down, the fans gripped their chilled drinks in anticipation. After the clock hit zero, the yellow and black suits stormed the green beaten field. They cried in excitement and exhaustion while they hugged teammates. The head coach was showered with freezing cold Gatorade that soaked every inch of his body.

4. alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word
Example:
The big brown bear bought bananas.

5. assonance
The repetition of the same vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in a sequence of words, at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
Example:
I tried to hide at the side of my ride.

6. A rose is a symbol of love.
A person, object, image, word, or even event that stands for itself and an additional, usually more abstract, meaning than its literal meaning.
Examples:
A rose is a symbol of love.

7. allusion
A brief, indirect reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in literature or history.
Example:
Sally didn’t like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.

8. -I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. -I nearly died laughing.
hyberbole
A figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect
Examples:
-I’m so hungry I could eat a horse I nearly died laughing.

9. simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Example:
Life is like a box of chocolates.

10. metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Example:
Life is a box of chocolates.

11. The use of a word that imitates the sound it denotes
onomatopoeia
The use of a word that imitates the sound it denotes
Example:
Buzz! Snap! Boom! Crash! Boom!

12. Jumbo shrimp Sweet Tart sweet and sour
oxymoron
A word or phrase in which two seemingly contradictory elements are used together
Examples:
Jumbo shrimp Sweet Tart sweet and sour

13. understatement
A figure of speech that says less than is intended; opposite of hyperbole
It was kind of windy at my house today.

14. personification
A figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects
Example:
The flowers smiled up at the sun.

15. rhyme
The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables most commonly in poetry at the end of lines
If school were more like baseball we'd only have to play We'd hang out in the sunshine and run around all day.
We wouldn't have to study We'd practice and we'd train And, best of all, they'd cancel whenever there was rain.

16. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds
rhythm
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds
Example:
Songs on the radio all have different rhythms.

17. Two or more consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem
stanza
Two or more consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem
My book report is due today.
I haven't finished yet.
In fact, I haven't started,
which I'm coming to regret.
I haven't even read the book.
I put it off so long.
I thought I'd have a lot of time.
It looks like I was wrong.
Stanza #1
Stanza #2

18. meter
The method of organizing a poem’s rhythm into a specific formal pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and the number of syllables per line

19. -sorrowful -amusing -cheerful
tone
The author’s attitude toward the characters, subject, or reader of a literary work; the mood or atmosphere the author’s attitude creates
Examples:
-sorrowful amusing cheerful

20. -A piece of cake -Break a leg -Hold your horses
idiom
A group of words that together have little or nothing to do with the meaning of the words taken one by one
Examples:
-A piece of cake Break a leg Hold your horses

21. A humorous, five-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and meter
limerick
A humorous, five-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and meter

22. free verse
Poetry that lacks established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza; also called open form poetry