Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Extended Metaphor
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
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.
