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| 13646832790 | Allitteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words "Gnus never knows pneumonia" is an example of alliteration since, despite the spellings, all four words begin with the n sound | 0 | |
| 13646867835 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. When T.S. Elliot writes, " to have squeezed the . love in a ball..." in the love of songs, he is alluding to the lines "Let us roll in ... in Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" | 1 | |
| 13646902850 | Antithesis | a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas Antithesis is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. | 2 | |
| 13646930153 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent) some abstract quality, or a non-existing personage is directly addressed as though present. | 3 | |
| 13646957313 | Assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds | 4 | |
| 13646972139 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. sometimes made on accident by the poet or consciously for effect | 5 | |
| 13647000898 | caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line or verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line and often greater than the normal pause. | 6 | |
| 13647023450 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things It may be a brief metaphor but also may form the framework of an entire poem | 7 | |
| 13647052372 | consonance | the repetition of similar constant sounds in a group of words. the term usually refers to in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different | 8 | |
| 13647072838 | Diction | The use of words in a literary work | 9 | |
| 13648486332 | formal diction | the level of usage common in serious books and formal discourse | 10 | |
| 13648490257 | informal diction | level of usage found in the relaxed but polite conversation of cultivated people | 11 | |
| 13648493256 | colloquial diction | everyday usage that may contain terms accepted in a group but not universally acceptable | 12 | |
| 13648494207 | slang diction | a group of newly coined words which are not acceptable for formal usage as yet | 13 | |
| 13648496214 | end-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines | 14 | |
| 13648505221 | enjambent | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next. | 15 | |
| 13648509906 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 16 | |
| 13648513409 | euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate | 17 | |
| 13648530118 | eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling but is half-way rhyme or slant rhyme from the pronunciation (means does not rhyme because of pronunciation) | 18 | |
| 13648544428 | feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed as "waken" and "forsaken" feminine rhyme is sometimes called double rhyme | 19 | |
| 13648551482 | figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted such as metaphor, irony , and simile they tend to something other than the meaning | 20 | |
| 13648561374 | hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement it may be used for serious or comic effect | 21 | |
| 13648565246 | imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. | 22 | |
| 13648571852 | irony | the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning | 23 | |
| 13648583386 | verbal irony | is a figure of speech in which actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning. | 24 | |
| 13648594268 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 25 | |
| 13648600114 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that falls on the stressed and concluding syllables of the rhyme-words include sleep and keep, glow and no, spell and impel | 26 | |
| 13648607067 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. using comparative terms like "as, like, than" | 27 | |
| 13648615465 | metonymy | a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | 28 | |
| 13648622835 | mixed metaphors | the mingling of one metaphor with another immediately following with which the first is incongruous | 29 | |
| 13648625903 | onomatopeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning "buzz, hiss, honk, zing" | 30 | |
| 13648632159 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness ex: "wise fool" "sad joy" | 31 | |
| 13648648285 | paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense | 32 | |
| 13648659629 | paraphrase | a restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form Often an amplification of the original for the purpose of clarity | 33 | |
| 13648671249 | personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | 34 | |
| 13648675275 | pun | A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. Puns can have serious as well humorous uses | 35 | |
| 13648683594 | refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 36 | |
| 13648689816 | rhyme | close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verses | 37 | |
| 13648756219 | Rhythm | the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. The presence of rhythmic patterns lends both pleasure and heightened emotional response to the listener or reader | 38 | |
| 13691436998 | Sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it. Its purpose is to injure or hurt. | 39 | |
| 13691454982 | satire | writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule Is usually comedy that exposes errors with an eye to correct vice and folly | 40 | |
| 13691468011 | Simile | a directly expressed comparison; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than." | 41 | |
| 13691469690 | stanza | usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 42 | |
| 13691472212 | strategy (rhetorical strategy) | the management of language for a specific effect Is the planned placing of elements to achieve an effect. | 43 | |
| 13691479619 | Structure | the arrangement of materials within a work the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole the logical divisions of a work | 44 | |
| 13691491860 | style | the mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author | 45 | |
| 13691495152 | symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else | 46 | |
| 13691497409 | Synecdoche | a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole | 47 | |
| 13691500209 | Syntax | the ordering of words into patterns or sentences | 48 | |
| 13691504741 | theme | the main thought expressed by a work | 49 | |
| 13691504742 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning | 50 | |
| 13691509556 | Understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 51 |
