Quintet a five line stanza
Boost!
Boost!
Sestet six line stanza
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Extended Metaphor
Octave 8 line stanza
Free Verse
Frozen!
Frozen!
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Balanced Sentences
three line stanza
Dramatic Irony
Asyndeton
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
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.
Quatrain
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Caesurae
Repetition of vowel sounds
Anaphora
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Frozen!
Frozen!
Shakespeare Sonnet The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Euphemism
Ellipsis
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Syllogism A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Boost!
Boost!
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Diction
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Apostrophe
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Ellipsis three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Damning with faint praise
Euphemism
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Free Verse
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Frozen!
Frozen!
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Balanced Sentences
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
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.
Spenserian
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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Incorrect!
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