Assonance is repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby
words.
There is an example of assonance in the first line
of the novel: "When he was nearly thirteen..." The vowel sounds in "he", in "nearly",
and "teen" are similar.
Hyperbole is an exaggeration for
effect. For example, in To Kill a Mockingbird, on page five, Harper Lee writes: "People
moved slowly then. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and
no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County." This
is obviously an exaggeration, as people had to buy things to live--food, supplies,
etc.--and there was an entire country outside of Maycomb County to
see.
When Scout sees snow for the first time, she says,
"Atticus, the world is coming to an end, please do something!" She is exaggerating for
effect: the world isn't really ending, but she's as scared as she might be if it were.
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