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- alliteration
- repetition of an initial consonant sound in two or more words
- allusion
- reference to another literary work, piece of art, history myth...
- apostrophe
- the direct address to a deceased or absent person as if that person were present
- figurative language
- language that uses figures of speech, can't be taken literally
- hyperbole
- figure of speech, an extreme exaggeration
- image
- word or phase that appeals to the senses
- metaphor
- figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another without using like or as
- personification
- when the writer gives human characteristics to an animal or object
- simile
- comparison using like or as
- style
- all the characteristics which make an authors work sound unique