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!
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Syllepsis
Syntax
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
8 line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Boost!
Boost!
Extended Metaphor
Diction
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Pun
Polysyndeton
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Syllogism
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Personification
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Quintet
Repetition of vowel sounds
Colloquial
Quatrain A four line stanza
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Atmosphere
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Balanced Sentences
Boost!
Boost!
Quintet a five line stanza
Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Parallelism
Frozen!
Frozen!
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Boost!
Boost!
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Epistrophe
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Frozen!
Frozen!
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Dramatic Irony
Quatrain
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
A play on words
Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Shakespeare Sonnet The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Paradox
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Synecdoche
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
six line stanza
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
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