Tone
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Couplet
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Synaesthesia
Pun
A play on words
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Exact Rhyme
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
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.
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Caesurae
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
