Animism in the broadest sense, i.e., thinking of objects as animate, and treating them as if they were animate, is near-universal. Jean Piaget applied the term in reference to an implicit understanding of the world in a child's mind which assumes that all events are the product of intention or consciousness.
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse.Assonance does not have to be a rhyme; the identity of which depends merely on sequence of both vowel and consonant sounds.ssonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse.
APOSTROPHE-a figure of speech in which a person not present is addressed. ASSONANCE-is a close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables. ATMOSPHERE / MOOD-is the prevailing feeling that is created in a story or poem. CACOPHONY-Harsh sounds introduced for poetic effect-sometimes words that are difficult to pronounce. CLICHE-an overused expression that has lost its intended force or novelty.