a five line stanza
Oxymoron
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, 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.
Sonnet
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Asyndeton
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Personification
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Ellipsis
8 line stanza
Sestet
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Scansion
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Shakespeare Sonnet
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Dramatic Irony
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Exact Rhyme
