A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Boost!
Boost!
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Repetition of vowel sounds
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Epistrophe
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
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.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
A four line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Parallel Structure
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
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Boost!
Parallelism
8 line stanza
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Exact Rhyme
Couplet
Syntax
Polysyndeton
three line stanza
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Boost!
Boost!
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Frozen!
Frozen!
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A four line stanza
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Spenserian
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Syllogism
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Boost!
Boost!
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Diction
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Sestet six line stanza
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Pun A play on words
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