Octave
8 line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Chaismus
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Personification
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
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
Euphemism
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
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.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
three line stanza
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Synaesthesia
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Assonance
Epistrophe
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Boost!
Boost!
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
The dictionary definition of a word
Quintet
a five line stanza
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A play on words
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Epistrophe
Dramatic Irony
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Personification
Anaphora
8 line stanza
Sestet
six line stanza
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Repetition of consonant sounds
Frozen!
Frozen!
Juxtaposition
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Duel!