Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Digression
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Epistrophe
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Free Verse
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Blank Verse
The dictionary definition of a word
Sonnet
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Tercet
three line stanza
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Uses words with identical end sound
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 figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
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.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Colloquial
a five line stanza
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Repetition of vowel sounds
