Parallelism
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Chaismus
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.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Syllepsis
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
a five line stanza
Octave
8 line stanza
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Digression
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Asyndeton
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Sestet
six line stanza
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Uses words with identical end sound
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
