Pun
A play on words
three line stanza
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.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Chaismus
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Syllepsis
Digression
A four line stanza
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Metonymy
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Parallelism
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Antithesis
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Syllogism
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
