Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Assonance
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Couplet
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Syncope
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Syllepsis
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Personification
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Sestet
six line stanza
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Epiphany
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.
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Pun
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Repetition of consonant sounds
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Balanced Sentences
Tercet
three line stanza
Free Verse
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
