Simile
A comparison of two unlike things you like or as
Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
Onomatopoeia
A use a word who sounds emanate suggest and reference its meaning
EX: shriek, scream, moan, sigh, crack, howl
Personification
I figure of speech attributing human qualities to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas (give something non-human human characteristics)
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration used for effort
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant or vowel sound at the start of a word
Oxymoron
Words or phrases that combine contrast in their opposite ideas. Jumbo shrimp
Paradox
And apparently contrast statements with one element of truth in it. (Sometimes when you when you lose.)
Imagery
Figurative language using the five senses to create metaphors, similes, personification, vivid descriptions to produce mental pictures
Symbolism
Something representing something else, especially a material object representing an abstract idea
Repetition
Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanza for possible reasons, rhymes, rhythms, music,
Refrain
Lines of poetry that are repeated at regular intervals within the poem,
a chorus
aIllusion
An indirect reference to a well-known person, place thing or event from history, literary mythology, or the Bible 
Pun
-A plan words which has three possible
-A word two different meanings
-Similarities of meaning in two words that are homonyms
-2 words, pronounced and spelled similarly, but have different meanings
Denotation
The dictionary meaning of a word
Connotation
The implied meaning of a word based on emotional association with it
Free verse
A poem with no rhyme or rhythmic pattern
Synecdoche
A part representing a whole
EX: all hands on deck
Stanza
A group of line separated by line space for four possible reasons
-different ideas
-rhyme
-rhythm
-emphasis
Satire
Any work which ridicules people, ideas, or institutions to make a point for reform.
Parody
Any work which humourous ridicules a particular style or literary composition through imitation purely for entertainment
Rhyme
-similar sounds and words positioned closely together
-there are several types, including
-Beginning ribs-the rhyme occurs at the beginning of two of our lives
-internal rhymes, the rhyme occurs with a single single line
-and rhyme the rhyme occurs at the end of two or more lines
Rhyme scheme
An alphabetized labelling system used to describe the rhyming pattern in a poem
Figurative language
The use of figure of speech, such as metaphor, similes, personification, etc.
