Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Epiphany
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Epistrophe
Boost!
Boost!
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Dramatic Irony
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Situational Irony
Metonymy
Parallel Structure
Spenserian
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.
Blank Verse
Personification
Paradox
Euphemism
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Syllepsis
Quatrain
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Damning with faint praise
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Consonance
Syncope
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Antithesis
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Boost!
Boost!
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Tercet three line stanza
Free Verse
Consonance
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Syllogism A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Motif
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Personification
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Syntax
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Denouement 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.
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Sestet six line stanza
Quintet a five line stanza
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Euphemism
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
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