Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Atmosphere
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Syllogism
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Situational Irony
three line stanza
Assonance
Homophones
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Blank Verse
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Juxtaposition
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
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
a five line stanza
Free Verse
Synecdoche
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Spenserian
