Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Quintet
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Syntax
Situational Irony
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
six line stanza
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
8 line stanza
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
three line stanza
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Repetition of consonant sounds
