Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Octave
Free Verse
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Quatrain
Quintet
a five line stanza
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Digression
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Synecdoche
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Euphemism
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Epistrophe
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
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 poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
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.
Litotes
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
