Sonnet
End Rhyme
Anticlimax
Pedantry
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Denouement
Tone
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Damning with faint praise
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Antithesis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
six line stanza
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
