similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Dramatic Irony
Motif
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
six line stanza
Couplet
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Octave
8 line stanza
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Exact Rhyme
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Synecdoche
Omitting conjunctions
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.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Tercet
three line stanza
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Damning with faint praise
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
