Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Boost!
Boost!
Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Frozen!
Frozen!
Dramatic Irony
Ellipsis
Octave 8 line stanza
Consonance
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Syllogism
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
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.
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Pun A play on words
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Diction
A four line stanza
Motif
Spenserian
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Frozen!
Frozen!
six line stanza
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Boost!
Boost!
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Pedantry
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Quintet
Syncope cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Extended Metaphor
Consonance
Pun
Ellipsis
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
Metonymy
End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Connotation
Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Anticlimax
8 line stanza
Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Parallel Structure
Frozen!
Frozen!
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
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