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| A narractive in which the characters, behaviour, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often allegory is a universal symbol or personified abstraction, such as Cupid portrayed as a chubby angel with a bow and arrows |
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| The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, often applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables. ex. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. |
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| A literary, historical, religious, mythological, or artistic reference. |
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| The regular repetition of the same words or phrases ar the beggining of succesive phrases of clauses. "To raise a happy, healthful, and hopeful child, IT TAKES family; IT TAKES teachers; IT TAKES clergy; IT TAKES business people...etc. |
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| The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases grammatical structure, or ideas. "To err is human, to forgive divine." |
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A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is
unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) An aphorism can be a memorable summation of the author’s point. |
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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. William Wordsworth addresses John Milton as he writes, “Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: /
England hath need of thee.” Another example is Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” in which Keats addresses the urn itself: “Thou still unravished bride of quietness.” Many apostrophes imply a personification of the object addressed |
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| The repitition of ideantical or similar vowel sounds, usually in succesive or proximate words. "shE sElls sEa shElls by the sEa shore." |
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| a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) |
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| The sense expressed by the tone of voice of the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feeling toward his or her subject, characters, event, or theme. |
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