Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Chaismus
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Polysyndeton
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Quatrain
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Shakespeare Sonnet
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
a five line stanza
Synaesthesia
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Antithesis
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Pun
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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.
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Octave
six line stanza
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
