Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Syllogism
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Damning with faint praise
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Personification
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Synecdoche
Synaesthesia
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Octave
8 line stanza
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Denouement
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Blank Verse
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Tone
Chaismus
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Tercet
three line stanza
A play on words
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
