SYMBOLS - definition.

1. something that represents or stands for something else, usually by convention or association, esp a material object used to represent something abstract

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an object, person, idea, etc., used in a literary work, film, etc., to stand for or suggest something else with which it is associated either explicitly or in some more subtle way

OXYMORON - definition.

Rhetoric an epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction such as “living death” or “deafening silence”.

INTERNAL RHYMES - definition.

a rhyme between words in the same line such as "the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother".

PARALLELISM - definition.

The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship or the state of being parallel.

HYPERBOLE - definition.

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

PERSONIFICATION - definition.

the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc., as for literary or artistic effect

ASSONANCE - definition.

the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery.

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