Pun
A play on words
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Colloquial
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Balanced Sentences
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Atmosphere
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Internal Rhyme
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Homophones
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Spenserian
Oxymoron
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Assonance
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
