Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Parallelism
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
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.
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Dramatic Irony
Syntax
Parallel Structure
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Pun
A play on words
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Asyndeton
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Atmosphere
Syncope
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Quintet
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
