(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Sestet
six line stanza
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Quatrain
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
Litotes
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Motif
Synaesthesia
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Consonance
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
The dictionary definition of a word
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Epiphany
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Colloquial
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Tercet
three line stanza
