Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Frozen!
Frozen!
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Dramatic Irony
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Boost!
Boost!
Couplet
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Antithesis
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Boost!
Boost!
Situational Irony
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Tone
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
a five line stanza
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
Synaesthesia
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A play on words
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Assonance
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Oxymoron A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Pedantry
End Rhyme
Frozen!
Frozen!
Chaismus
Quintet
Connotation
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
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Boost!
Blank Verse
Sestet six line stanza
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Shakespeare Sonnet
Polysyndeton
Boost!
Boost!
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
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.
Extended Metaphor
Frozen!
Frozen!
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
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
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Litotes
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Octave 8 line stanza
Pun A play on words
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Syntax
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Incorrect!
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