Anaphora
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Damning with faint praise
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Pun
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Asyndeton
Internal Rhyme
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Polysyndeton
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Extended Metaphor
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
