the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs.  The first sound is represented or designated as a, the second is designated as b, and so on.  When the first sound is repeated, it is designated as a also.

the similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words.  Lake and stake are rhymes; lake  and fate are assonance.  Base and face are rhymes; base and fate are assonance.

the repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse.  Consonance is similar to alliteration except that consonance doesn’t limit the repeated sound to the initial letter or a word.

is the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza  refrain often takes the form of a chorus.

    implied comparison between two usually unrelated things indicating a likeness or analogy between attributes found in both things.  A metaphor, unlike a simile, does not use like or as to indicate the comparison.

1.    the substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it.  “Pay tribute to the crown.”  “The White House has decided.”

1.       a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker (or by a speaker) in a literary work.  An incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true (or between what a character perceives and what the author intends the reader to perceive.)

1.       situation in which there is an incongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or between what is anticipated and what actually comes to pass.

1.       compact paradox—a figure of speech that combines two contradictory words, placed side by side:  bitter sweet, wise fool, living death.