Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Chaismus
Extended Metaphor
Motif
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
The dictionary definition of a word
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Polysyndeton
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
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.
Sonnet
Anaphora
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Assonance
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Syntax
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Euphemism
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Internal Rhyme
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Verbal irony
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
