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
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Spenserian
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Litotes
Motif
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Juxtaposition
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Denotation
Dramatic Irony
Homophones
Quatrain A four line stanza
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Pedantry
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Repetition of vowel sounds
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Quatrain A four line stanza
Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Blank Verse
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Litotes
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.
three line stanza
Mood
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
a five line stanza
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Free Verse
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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