Spenserian
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Internal Rhyme
Asyndeton
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Tercet
Quintet a five line stanza
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Colloquial
Boost!
Boost!
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Pun A play on words
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Oxymoron
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Sestet six line stanza
Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Metonymy
Homophones
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Connotation
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Tercet three line stanza
Syllogism
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Parallel Structure
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Euphemism
Dramatic Irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
six line stanza
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Boost!
Boost!
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Octave 8 line stanza
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Denouement
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Tone
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Quatrain A four line stanza
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