Dramatic Irony
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Personification
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Quintet
a five line stanza
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Caesurae
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Syllogism
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Tercet
Sonnet
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
A play on words
Omitting conjunctions
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Digression
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Exact Rhyme
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Quintet
a five line stanza
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Blank Verse
six line stanza
Denouement
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.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Repetition of consonant sounds
Diction
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
three line stanza
Polysyndeton
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Ellipsis
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
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.
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Caesurae
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Juxtaposition
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Duel!