Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Pun
A play on words
Atmosphere
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Uses words with identical end sound
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Epiphany
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.
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Apostrophe
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Parallel Structure
Polysyndeton
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Juxtaposition
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
