Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Denouement
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.
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Quintet
a five line stanza
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Exact Rhyme
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Euphemism
Octave
8 line stanza
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Tercet
three line stanza
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
