three line stanza
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Sestet
The dictionary definition of a word
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Personification
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.
Assonance
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Synaesthesia
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Pun
A play on words
Dramatic Irony
