Scansion
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Omitting conjunctions
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Syncope
Sestet
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Damning with faint praise
Denotation
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
End Rhyme
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Situational Irony
Couplet
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Spenserian
Quatrain
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
