End Rhyme
Boost!
Boost!
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Couplet
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Consonance
Connotation
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Dramatic Irony
six line stanza
Syntax
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Frozen!
Frozen!
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Tercet
three line stanza
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Digression
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Pun
A play on words
Octave
8 line stanza
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
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.
Boost!
Boost!
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Tercet
three line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Motif
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Quintet
a five line stanza
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Frozen!
Frozen!
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Quatrain
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Atmosphere
Synecdoche
Situational Irony
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Scansion
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Duel!