Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Syllogism
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Quatrain A four line stanza
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Tercet three line stanza
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
A play on words
Quintet a five line stanza
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Spenserian
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Ellipsis three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Denouement 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.
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
six line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Internal Rhyme
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Balanced Sentences
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Atmosphere
Paradox
Boost!
Boost!
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Assonance Repetition of vowel 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
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Homophones
Chaismus
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Frozen!
Frozen!
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Synecdoche
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Personification
Frozen!
Frozen!
six line stanza
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Denouement 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.
Asyndeton
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Tercet three line stanza
Mood
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Epiphany
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
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