#1. Harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds, often produced by combinations of words that require a clipped, explosive delivery, or words that contain a number of plosive consonants
#2. a reference to something in literature, history, mythology, religious texts, etc., considered common knowledge.
#3. the repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds for a purpose. For example: mad as a hatter.
#4. the repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds for a purpose
#5. Double or even multiple meaning
#6. a narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung and generally about ordinary people who have unusual adventures, with a single tragic incident
#7. It can be a character, an animal, a force, or a weakness of the character
#8. is a narrative in which the characters often stand for abstract concepts.
#9. a point by point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar of the two things.
#10. the device, usually in poetry, of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought somewhere within the poem.
