allegory: a moral story featuring a symbolic representation of ideas through fictional characters (often animals)
- Watership Down is a story about rabbits; this allegory concerns different types of government.
- Animal Farm is a story about farm animals; this allegory concerns communism.
alliteration: the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words in a group
- The titles of the books in the Lemony Snicket series feature alliteration: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, etc.
- Many tongue-twisters are alliterative: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
Source: “insult.” Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 04 Jan. 2007 <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/insult>.