Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Personification
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Pun
A play on words
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Blank Verse
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Omitting conjunctions
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Connotation
Anaphora
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Parallelism
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Tercet
three line stanza
Free Verse
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Metonymy
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
