A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Synecdoche
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.
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Extended Metaphor
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Anticlimax
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Pun
A play on words
Syncope
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Octave
8 line stanza
three line stanza
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Syllepsis
Pedantry
