Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Juxtaposition
Pedantry
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A play on words
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Scansion
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Damning with faint praise
a five line stanza
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Denotation
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Tercet
three line stanza
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Connotation
