The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Damning with faint praise
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Pun
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Extended Metaphor
Mood
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Tercet
three line stanza
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
