Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Sestet six line stanza
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Exact Rhyme
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
The dictionary definition of a word
Boost!
Boost!
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Personification
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.
Extended Metaphor
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
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.
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Colloquial
Ellipsis
Repetition of consonant sounds
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
Couplet
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Assonance
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Antithesis
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
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.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Sonnet
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Blank Verse
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Boost!
Boost!
Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Litotes
Euphemism
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Polysyndeton
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Antithesis
Frozen!
Frozen!
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Motif
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
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