Balanced Sentences
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Tercet
Atmosphere
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Synecdoche
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Pun
A play on words
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Syllogism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Octave
8 line stanza
End Rhyme
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Assonance
Quatrain
A four line stanza
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.
Situational Irony
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
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
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
