Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Extended Metaphor
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Boost!
Boost!
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Syllepsis
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Juxtaposition
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Internal Rhyme A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Litotes
Pun
Denouement 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.
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Epistrophe
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Ellipsis three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
a five line stanza
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Frozen!
Frozen!
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Synaesthesia
Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Euphemism
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Boost!
Boost!
8 line stanza
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Scansion
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Boost!
Boost!
Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Tone
Quintet a five line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
Quatrain
Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Parallel Structure
Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
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