Figures of Speech
Imagery--to evoke a mental image (sometimes emotional), figurative language
Irony-- expression of words used to convey an opposite meaning from the usual sense.
Metaphor--a term used to treat two things that are not the same as equals such as "The universe
is God's playground."
Oxymoron--the joining of two words that seem to be contradictory (opposites), but offer a unique
effect such as living deaths, freezing fires, deafening silence, and pretty ugly.
Personification--a form of metaphor where an inanimate object, animal, or idea is given human-like
characteristics such as "Night swallowed the sun's last ray of light"
Prose--ordinary or plain everyday language used in speech or writing with no patterns or rhymes.
Pun--a play on words that sound similar for a humorous effect
Repetition--a repeating sound, line, syllable, etc. bring reinforcement to the meaning of a poem,
fulfillment.
Rhyme--a recurrence of similar ending sounds at the ends of a poetic line/verse.
Simile--a comparison between two unlike things using like or as, etc. such as "Your eyes are like
sparkling diamonds."
