pathetic fallacy , the weather describes the mood , personification , something non human is given human qualities, similie , comparing things using like or as , metaphor , comparing two things using is or are , extended metaphor , explanation on top of the metaphor , oxymoron , opposites side by side , juxtaposition , opposing ideas , semantic field , objects that are linked by a trigger , irony , events happen that were very unlikely to happen, rhetorical question , a question that doesn't need an answer, hyperbole , over exagerating , assonance , repetition of vowel sounds , alliteration , words in a row that all start with the same letter, sibilance , words in a row starting with an 's' sound, euphanism , said in a nicer way , emotive language , the writer makes a reader feel a certain emotion, onomatopoeia , words describe sounds , rule of 3 , three adjectives describing one thing, facts/stats , evidence , plosives , repitition of harsh sounds , zoomorphism , you give a person animal like features , opinions , using someones thoughts , repitition , repeating a word or phrase , nouns , naming word , verbs , action word , adjectives , describing word , adverbs , ly word , enjabment , the line carries on but the sentence hasn't finished, caesura, a large break between two words.

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