persona: The narrative or voice in that speaks of his or her situation or feelings

Speaker/persona:  The narrative or voice in that speaks of his or her situation or feelings

Apostrophe: when a character speaks to something non-personified as if its living 

Dramatic monologue:   long passage in a play, poem or story that tells a character’s thoughts and feelings

 Denotation: literal meaning of a word its trying to imply

Connotation: implied meaning that is linked with a word in addition to its actual meaning
Imagery: creates mental pictures or senses that are evoked by words

Visual: sense of sight

Auditory: sense of hearing

Olfactory: sense of smell

Tactile: sense of touch

Gustatory: sense of taste

Onomatopoeia: words that have similar meaning to the sound it is creating.
Figurative language: a meaning that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal understanding

Simile:  a figure of speech that compares to unlike things using as or like
Metaphor: a figure of speech that compares one thing to another without using as or like
Hyperbole: an overstatement which emphasises a figure of speech
Personification:  a figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to a nonhuman
Paradox:  a statement that contradicts itself
Oxymoron: a short paradox that have opposite or different meaning
Synesthesia:  sensory stimulus from one sense is mixed up with another
Tone:  the attitude of an author towards an audiences or subject
Irony: indicates a detachment between what is said and what is meant
Alliteration : repetition of consonant sounds of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words

Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds

Consonance:  repetition of same consonant sounds
Rhyme: one of two or more words that end in the same sound
Metre: the rhythm of syllables in a line of a verse or in a stanza of a poem

Rhythm: constant pattern of movement or sound
Stanza form: a sequence of set lines within a poem