Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Dramatic Irony
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Couplet
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Antithesis
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Situational Irony
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Tone
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
a five line stanza
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
Synaesthesia
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A play on words
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Assonance
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Pedantry
