1. Roar Literary Elements

2. Assonance - The repetition of VOWEL sounds
Consonance - The repetition of CONSONANT sounds

3. Rhyme - The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words (pair/fair, madly/glad).
End rhyme - the rhyming of words at the ends of lines
Internal Rhyme - the rhyming of two or more words within the same line

4. Alliteration - repetition of beginning consonant sounds (sad/Sunday, knowing/nobody, candy/kisses)

5. Onomatopoeia - words that imitate their sound (BAM! SPLAT! hiss... rip)

6. Allusion - reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, etc.

7. Hyperbole – exaggeration for effect

8. Idiom - a common phrase or figure of speech not to be taken literally (beating around the bush, raining cats and dogs)

9. Metaphor – a comparison in which something is described as though it were something else (equaling one to the other)

10. Personification – giving a nonhuman subject human characteristics (the wind whistled at night)

11. Simile - comparing two things using “like” or “as”

12. Tone - The writer or speaker’s attitude toward his/her audience and subject. (Ex.: serious, playful, bitter, light- hearted, etc.)

13. Theme - A central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work about human beings or life. A theme statement is a general, universal statement.

14. Connotation - The feeling or tone of a word.