Epistrophe
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Polysyndeton
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Sestet
six line stanza
Homophones
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Tercet
three line stanza
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Tone
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Parallelism
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Caesurae
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
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.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Chaismus
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
