Balanced Sentences a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Juxtaposition
Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Sestet six line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
Motif
Paradox
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Denotation The dictionary definition of a word
Metonymy
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Diction
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Antithesis
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Litotes
Assonance
Quintet a five line stanza
Colloquial
Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Parallel Structure
Euphemism
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Damning with faint praise
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Syncope
Asyndeton
Syllepsis a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
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.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Synecdoche
Paradox
Tone
Epistrophe
Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Repetition of consonant sounds
Litotes
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Couplet
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Verbal irony
Chaismus A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Blank Verse
8 line stanza
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Digression
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