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.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Quintet
a five line stanza
Asyndeton
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Polysyndeton
8 line stanza
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Repetition of vowel sounds
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Balanced Sentences
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Metonymy
Extended Metaphor
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Anticlimax
six line stanza
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Scansion
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Digression
Oxymoron
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Synaesthesia
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Sestet
six line stanza
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Atmosphere
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Parallelism
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
a five line stanza
Pun
A play on words
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Scansion
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Digression
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Ellipsis
Duel!