Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Frozen!
Frozen!
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Ellipsis
Frozen!
Frozen!
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Euphemism
Parallel Structure
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Homophones
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Boost!
Boost!
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Internal Rhyme
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Boost!
Boost!
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.
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Octave
8 line stanza
Apostrophe
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
The dictionary definition of a word
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Frozen!
Frozen!
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Apostrophe
Frozen!
Frozen!
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Epiphany
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Free Verse
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Consonance
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Motif
Verbal irony
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Sestet
six line stanza
Boost!
Boost!
Sonnet
Caesurae
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Quintet
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Duel!