Connotation
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
three line stanza
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Antithesis
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
8 line stanza
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
a five line stanza
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Boost!
Boost!
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Verbal irony
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
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Repetition of vowel sounds
Denouement
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Chaismus
Tone
Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Sestet six line stanza
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Balanced Sentences
Pun
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
8 line stanza
Asyndeton
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Antithesis
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Uses words with identical end sound
Anticlimax
Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Dramatic Irony
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Boost!
Boost!
Repetition of consonant sounds
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
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
Atmosphere
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
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