Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Euphemism
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Apostrophe
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
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.
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Quintet a five line stanza
Spenserian
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Scansion
Syntax
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Assonance
Epiphany
Couplet
A four line stanza
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Metonymy
Denotation
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
three line stanza
Octave 8 line stanza
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
The dictionary definition of a word
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Anticlimax
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Tercet three line stanza
Using the same conjunction lots of times
a five line stanza
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Sestet six line stanza
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Apostrophe
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Consonance
Syntax
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
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
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Syllogism A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
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