Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Boost!
Boost!
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Frozen!
Frozen!
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
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.
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Denotation
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Apostrophe
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Parallel Structure
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Exact Rhyme
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Synaesthesia
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Syncope
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Quatrain
A four line stanza
End Rhyme
three line stanza
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Boost!
Boost!
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Asyndeton
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Frozen!
Frozen!
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Uses words with identical end sound
Octave
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Balanced Sentences
Syllogism
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Oxymoron
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Free Verse
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Quintet
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Sonnet
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
three line stanza
Duel!