any emotional discharge which brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension or anxiety a condition in which one type of sensory stimulation creates perception in another sense the continuous flow of sentences and words that give the reader a clear mental insight to the narrator's thoughts and perspective a comparison of two things usually by representing something else a comparison of two things using like or as an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing to apart of another text when the first letter or sound of close or adjacent words are identical

1. catharsis

any emotional discharge which brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension or anxiety

2. synesthia

a condition in which one type of sensory stimulation creates perception in another sense

3. stream of consciousness

the continuous flow of sentences and words that give the reader a clear mental insight to the narrator's thoughts and perspective

4. metaphor

a comparison of two things usually by representing something else

5. simile

a comparison of two things using like or as

6. allusion

an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing to apart of another text

7. alliteration

when the first letter or sound of close or adjacent words are identical. consants: consantants assonants: vowels

8. diction

word choice in a sentence or phrase