Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
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Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Sestet
Tone
A play on words
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Synecdoche
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Boost!
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
three line stanza
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Free Verse
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Syncope
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Consonance
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Synaesthesia
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Syntax
Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Quintet
Syllepsis
Motif
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Synecdoche
Internal Rhyme
Parallelism
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Euphemism
Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Paradox
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Boost!
Boost!
Synaesthesia
Tone
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
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