Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Ellipsis
Tone
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Tercet
Polysyndeton
Euphemism
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
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Free Verse
Pedantry
Diction
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Quintet
a five line stanza
Exact Rhyme
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.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Asyndeton
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
