Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Homophones
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Mood
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Paradox
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Pun
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Quintet
a five line stanza
Personification
Repetition of vowel sounds
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Epistrophe
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.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
three line stanza
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Synaesthesia
Quatrain
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
8 line stanza
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
