Quatrain A four line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Situational Irony
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
End Rhyme
Juxtaposition
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Scansion
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Tercet three line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Epistrophe
Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Oxymoron
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Omitting conjunctions
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Pun A play on words
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Syntax
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Exact Rhyme
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Boost!
Boost!
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Quintet
Paradox
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Quatrain
Homophones
Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Sestet six line stanza
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Epistrophe
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
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.
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Digression
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
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