1. Literary Devices
Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds
Example:
Allusion: a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar consonant sounds.

2. 4. Free Verse: unrhymed poetry
5. Connotation: associations that a word calls to mind in addition to the dictionary meaning.
Example: HOME has positive connotations
6. Consonance: repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables containing dissimilar vowels
Example: a frightful fiend/doth close behind him tread

3. 7. Denotation: objective meaning of a word (dictionary definition)
8. Diction: writer’s word choice. It determines the writer’s style.
9. Imagery: descriptive language used in literature to re-create sensory experiences.
10. Metaphor: figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
Example:
11. Simile: a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things using like or as.

4. Literary Devices
12. Extended metaphor: developed in length and involves several points of comparison.
13. Mood: feeling created for the reader by the literary work or passage. It may be suggested by the choice of words, events in the work, or by the physical setting.
14. Onomatopoeia: use of words that imitate sounds BUZZ, HISS

5. 15. Oxymoron: figure of speech the fuses two contradictory ideas
15. Oxymoron: figure of speech the fuses two contradictory ideas. An oxymoron comes with only two words that contradicts itself and is a description of a phrase, which is contradictory
Example: Jumbo Shrimp
16. Paradox: statement that seems contradictory but it actually presents a truth and consists of a whole sentence. A paradox is considered to be an action that is contradictory Examples:
"I can resist anything but temptation."-Oscar Wilde
Be cruel to be kind
Deep down, you're really shallow.

6. 17. Personification: figure of speech in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics.
Example:
18. Refrain: a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

7. 19. Speaker: imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem; the character that “says” the poem.
20. Tone: the writer’s attitude toward the readers and toward the subject.
21. Theme: central idea, concern, or purpose in a literary work.
Example:
22. Symbol: sign word, phrase image or other object that stands for or represents something else.