Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Homophones
Omitting conjunctions
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Uses words with identical end sound
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Apostrophe
Octave
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Damning with faint praise
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Metonymy
Chaismus
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Quintet
a five line stanza
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Assonance
Tercet
Denotation
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
