Quatrain
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Pun A play on words
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Octave 8 line stanza
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.
a five line stanza
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Syntax
Apostrophe
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Anticlimax
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Metonymy
Blank Verse
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
8 line stanza
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Quintet a five line stanza
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Repetition of vowel sounds
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Pun A play on words
Diction
Tercet
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Connotation
Exact Rhyme
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Syntax
Incorrect!
Incorrect!
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