Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Quintet
a five line stanza
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Sonnet
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Anticlimax
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Oxymoron
Denouement
Omitting conjunctions
Parallel Structure
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Balanced Sentences
Octave
8 line stanza
Pun
A play on words
Atmosphere
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Polysyndeton
