- Rhyme. Rhyme occurs when (the last vowel sound and any consonant sounds that may follow it) have the same sounds Examples of rhyming sounds are fish dish, wish and swish, as well as people, couple, apple, dimple, triple, purple, and sample.
- Assonance. Assonance is the same vowel sound is heard repeatedly within a line or a few lines of poetry Assonance is exemplified in these words: fun, bun, run, hut, mud, some, and rug.
- Alliteration. Alliteration is a form of consonance rhyming. It begins with the same sound two consonances, like girl and group, as well as boy and band Onomatopoeia.
- Onomatopoeia is the device in which the sound of the word imitates the noise it describes. For example, buzz is the sound of a bee and hiss is the sound a snake makes Figurative Language. Figurative language is the language that uses figures of speech and that cannot be taken literally. Figurative language takes many different forms, and it involves comparing or contrasting one object, idea, or feeling with another one. Here are common figures speech. Simile is a direct comparison of one thing with another, explicitly announced by the word like or as. Metaphor is an implied comparison without a signal word to evoke similarities. In it, person, and object, or an idea is imaginatively transformed. An example can be found in Vachel Lindsay's To a Golden-Haired Girl in a Louisiana Town You are a sunrise, If a star should rise instead of the sun. Personification is the granting of human attributes to things that are not human. For example, Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew.