Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Metonymy
Oxymoron
Assonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Verbal irony
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Tone
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
six line stanza
A play on words
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Synaesthesia
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Shakespeare Sonnet
Anaphora
three line stanza
