Alliteration  - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words., Adjectives - A word naming an attribute of a noun, Triple - Any ideas, thoughts, events, characters or sentences that are presented in threes are more effective and memorable., Oxymoron  - A figure of speech pairing two words together that are opposing and/or contradictory., Metaphor - A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison., Simile - A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as, Personification - Giving any human attribute to an object., Repetition  - The action of repeating something that has already been said or written., Emotive Language - Word choices that are intended to get an emotional reaction or arouse an emotion., Pathetic Fallacy  - A literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. e.g. weather , Onomatopoeia  - The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named, Adverbs - A word that describes a verb (an action or a doing word)., Foreshadowing  - The writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.,

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