monday-poetry terms

Alliteration; repetition of an inital consonant sound.
Anaphora;the repetition of the same word or phase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.(contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)
Antithesis; the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phases.
Apostrophe;breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, the abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Assonance; identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Chiasmus: a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with parts reversed.
Euphemism: the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Hyperbole: an extravagant statement: the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Irony:the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Litotes: a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which a affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Metaphor: An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common
Metonymy:a figure of speech in which on word or phase is substituted for another with which it is  closely associated: also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
Onomatopoeia:the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
Paradox; a statement that appears to contradict its self.,
Personification; A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Pun: a play on words sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words,
Simlie: a stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole( for example, ABCs for alphabet ) or the whole for a part ("england won the world cup in 1966")
Understatement: a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.