Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Syllepsis
Caesurae
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Pun
three line stanza
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Syntax
Uses words with identical end sound
