(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Sestet
six line stanza
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Quatrain
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
Litotes
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Motif
Synaesthesia
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Consonance
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
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
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
The dictionary definition of a word
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Epiphany
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Colloquial
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Tercet
three line stanza
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Boost!
Boost!
Atmosphere
Pun
A play on words
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Polysyndeton
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Internal Rhyme
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Tercet
three line stanza
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Juxtaposition
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Frozen!
Frozen!
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Frozen!
Frozen!
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Damning with faint praise
Octave
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Balanced Sentences
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
six line stanza
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Duel!