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| assigning human qualities to something not human |
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| exaggeration or overstatement |
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| polite, less offensive term for someting that might offend someone |
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| direct comparison of two unlike things |
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| indirect comparison, using "like" or "as" |
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| object that has a literal and figurative meaning |
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| word or phrase that eevokes one of the 5 senses |
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| deliberate omission of conjunctions |
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| intentionally employing a series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses |
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| a stereotypical or archetypal character, sometimes a vehicle for parody |
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| appearance of truth; quality of seeming to be true |
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| using 2nd person in a poem to address an absent "you" |
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| diction characterized by the use of long words |
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| order of words in a phrase, clause or sentence |
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| in fiction, the narrator's attitude as sensed by the reader |
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| emotional impact of a piece of writing |
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| general idea/insight about life a writer wishes to express |
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| quality of having more than one possible meaning |
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