Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Internal Rhyme
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Asyndeton
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Uses words with identical end sound
Euphemism
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Pedantry
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Tercet
three line stanza
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Blank Verse
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
A four line stanza
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Syncope
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Shakespeare Sonnet
Extended Metaphor
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Ellipsis
