Alliteration Allusion Analogy Anaphora - repetition of word/phrase at beginning of successive clauses Apostrophe - speaking directly to someone not present/dead or an inanimate object Archetype - typical character/action/situation that represents universal patterns of human nature Assonance - repetition of vowel sound Blank verse - unrhymed iambic pentameter Conceit - extended metaphor that compares two very distinct things Connotation Consonance - repetition of consonant sound Couplet Denotation Diction Enjambment Hyperbole Imagery Metaphor Meter Metonymy - one representative word stands for something else Octave - verse form with eight lines, usually iambic pentamter Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Paradox Personification Petrarchan sonnet Quatrain Sestet Shakespearean Sonnet Simile Soliloquy Symbol Synecdoche - part of something represents the whole Syntax Theme