Tone
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
A four line stanza
Colloquial
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Syllogism A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
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
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Couplet
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Omitting conjunctions
Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Situational Irony 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
Sestet six line stanza
Damning with faint praise
Anaphora
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Syllepsis
Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Consonance
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Frozen!
Frozen!
Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Quintet a five line stanza
Mood
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
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.
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Quatrain
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Parallel Structure
Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Chaismus
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 form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
8 line stanza
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Atmosphere
Uses words with identical end sound
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Syllepsis
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Blank Verse
Boost!
Boost!
Incorrect!
Incorrect!
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