Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.

Antonym: words that are opposite in meaning.

Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry.

Connotation: the personal or emotional associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning.

Denotation: the dictionary meaning of a word.

Figurative Language: a form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words.

Form: the arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content.

Free Verse: poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme

Homonym: two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation and spelling but with different meanings.

Homophone: two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings and spellings.

Hyperboyle: an exaggeration of the truth.

Image: a concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or idea.

Imagery: figurative language used to create particular mental images.

Metaphor: an association of two completely different objects as being the same thing.

Meter: the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.

Rhyme: the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.

Rhythm: the recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.

Setting: the time and place of a literary work that establishes its context.

Simile: a figure of speech invoking a comparison between unlike things using “like,” “as,” or “as though.”

Structure: the design or form or a literary work.

Symbol: an object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself

Synonym: one or two or more words that have the same or nearly the same meanings.

Tone: the implied attitude of a writer (or speaker) toward the subject and characters of the work.