Denouement
Spenserian
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Exact Rhyme
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Internal Rhyme
Diction
Homophones
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Caesurae
The dictionary definition of a word
Synecdoche
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
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Personification
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Consonance
Quintet
a five line stanza
Pun
Connotation
Balanced Sentences
