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- Personification
- figure of speech where a nonhuman thing shows human characteristics
- Allusion
- literary reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event
- Connotation
- a meaning or feeling suggested beyond literary meaning
- Simile
- a figure of speech that compares things using the words \"like\" or \"as\"
- Metaphor
- a figure of speech that compares things without using the words \"like\" or \"as\"
- Alliteration
- the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words (ex. Sally SellS SeaShellS by the SeaShore)