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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