A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Denotation
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Boost!
Boost!
Digression
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Assonance
Free Verse
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
three line stanza
Couplet
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
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Boost!
Boost!
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Colloquial
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
(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.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Frozen!
Frozen!
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Repetition of vowel sounds
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Anticlimax
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Boost!
Boost!
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
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Antithesis
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Octave
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Duel!