poetry terms

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giving human characterstics to an animal, object, or idea
(or hyperbole) an extreme exaggeration used for effect
the repetition of end consonant sounds
an implied comparison between unlike things
the setting together, for effect, two words of opposite meaning
an apparent contradiction, which is nevertheless somehow true
a comparison between two unlike things using words such as; like, as, than, similar to, etc.
play on words
saying less than what is meant, for effect
the repetition of initial sounds
"sound words"; words whose sound suggests their meaning
the repetition of vowel sonds
a reference to something in history or literature
roughly defined as something that means moe that what it is