onomatopoeia - A word that represents a sound., enjambment - The continuation of a sentence without pause at the end of a line, when the sentence continues onto the next line., symbolism - The use of images, signs or symbols to represent ideas, emotions and concepts., personification - Giving human qualities to nonhuman objects, things or ideas., metaphor - The direct comparison between two unrelated things by stating they are the same thing, to emphasise their hidden similarities., imagery - Visually descriptive or sensory language., alliteration - The repetition of a consonant sound in words or phrases close together., simile - The comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as' to emphasise their similarities., assonance - The resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels., pun - A joking play on words exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings., iamb - A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable., rhythm - The measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables., meter - The rhythmic pattern of a poetic line., trochee - A metrical foot consisting of an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable., rhetorical question - A question asked not for the answer, but for the effect of persuading or subtly influencing the audience. ,

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