Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
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Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Litotes
Apostrophe
Tercet three line stanza
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
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
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Damning with faint praise
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Octave 8 line stanza
Juxtaposition
Colloquial
Assonance
Anaphora
Synaesthesia
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Parallelism
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Dramatic Irony
Antithesis
Parallel Structure
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
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Epiphany
Euphemism
a five line stanza
Octave 8 line stanza
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Oxymoron
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Synecdoche
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Consonance
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Situational Irony
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Sestet
Assonance
Syllogism A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Pun A play on words
Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
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
Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
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