Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
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.
Pun
A play on words
Paradox
Euphemism
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Chaismus
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Pedantry
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.
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Verbal irony
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Syncope
Mood
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
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