Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Quintet
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Tone
Quatrain
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Internal Rhyme
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.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Free Verse
Situational Irony
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Syntax
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Tercet
three line stanza
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
