Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Juxtaposition
Octave
8 line stanza
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Pun
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Syllogism
Syncope
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Epistrophe
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
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
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
Ellipsis
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Verbal irony
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Blank Verse
Tercet
