Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Caesurae
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Exact Rhyme
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Octave
8 line stanza
a five line stanza
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Colloquial
Consonance
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Connotation
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 word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Metonymy
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Synaesthesia
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Anticlimax
Quatrain
A four line stanza
