A four line stanza a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.

a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.

An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details Using the same conjunction lots of times A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Homophones Synaesthesia Internal Rhyme Caesurae

A moment of sudden revelation or insight a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.") The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant