PERSONIFICATION

Example : The boat hugging the shore PERSONIFICATION AN ANIMAL GIVEN HUMAN –LIKE QUALITIES OR AN OBJECT GIVEN LIFE-LIKE QUALITIES.

ALLITERATION EXAMPLE :Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves • CONSONANT SOUNDS REPEATED AT THE BEGINNING OF WORDS

ASSONANCE REPEATED VOWEL SOUNDS IN A LINE OR LINES OF POETRY.

HYPERBOLE EXAMPLE: I’m so tried I could sleep for a year • EXAGGERATION OFTEN USED FOR EMPHASIS

ONOMATOPOEIA EXAMPLE: BUZZ • WORDS THAT IMITATE THE SOUND THEY ARE NAMING

EXAMPLE: MY MIND IS A OCEAN ;MY WORDS ARE A RIVER METAPHOR A DIRECT COMPARISON OF TWO UNLIKE THING

EXAMPLE: MY MIND IS A OCEAN ;IT’S AS SMOOTH AS JAZZ SIMILE A COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS USING ‘’ LIKE’’ OR ‘’AS’’.

Imagery Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste or smell.

Idiom An expression where the literal meaning of the words .

Consonance