Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

-"Dan's dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove."

-"Hannah's home has heat hopefully."

Allusion

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

-"I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinochio's"

-"When she lost her job, she acted like a 

Antithesis

Is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

-"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

-"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Apostrophe

Detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech.

-"Oh, rose, how sweet you smell and how bright you look!"

-"Car, please get me to work today."

Assonance

Is the figurative term used to refer to the repetition of a vowel sound in a line of text or poetry.

-"The light of the fire is a sight."

-"Go slow over the road."

Blank Verse

It has a consistent meter with 10 syllables in each line

-Robert Frost's "The Mending Wall"

-William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis"