Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Quintet
a five line stanza
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Sonnet
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Anticlimax
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Oxymoron
Denouement
Omitting conjunctions
Parallel Structure
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Balanced Sentences
Octave
8 line stanza
Pun
A play on words
Atmosphere
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Polysyndeton
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Juxtaposition
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Denotation
Octave
8 line stanza
Scansion
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
A play on words
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Frozen!
Frozen!
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Spenserian
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Tercet
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Duel!