Tone
Frozen!
Frozen!
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
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a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Frozen!
Frozen!
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Couplet
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Synaesthesia
Pun A play on words
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Exact Rhyme
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
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.
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Caesurae
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Frozen!
Frozen!
Syntax
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Boost!
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Metonymy
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Caesurae
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
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Boost!
six line stanza
Quintet a five line stanza
Blank Verse
Octave
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
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