CREATIVE WRITING

• Simile


  A figure of speech that expresses the resemblance of one thing to another of a different category, usually introduced by as or like
• Metaphor


  A figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another
• Hyperbole


  The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech
• Personification


  A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas
• Synecdoche


  A part is used to represent a whole
• Alliteration


  Repetition of an initial consonant sound at the beginning
• Anaphora


  Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses and verses
• Apostrophe


  Addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though it were a living being
• Assonance


  Similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
• Chiasmus


  Verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balance against the first but with the parts reversed
• Paradox


  Statement that appears to contradict itself
• Consonance


  Repetition of consonant sounds in quick succession at the end of a word
• Euphemism


  Substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
• Pun


  Play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
• Oxymoron


  Incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
• Irony


  Use of words to express something other than and specially the opposite of the literal meaning
• Onomatopoeia


  Use of words to imitate the sounds
• Understatement


  Deliberately makes a situation seem less important than it is
• Diction


  The style of writing used based on the word choice and usage
• Poetry


  Literature in a metrical form, a composition forming rhythmic lines, follows particular flow of rhythm and meter, putting words together in an interesting way to express feeling
• Structure


  How a poem looks or its arrangement on the page
• Lines


  Single line in a poem and organized in stanza
• Stanza


  Group of lines, named for the number of lines it contains
• Enjambments


  When the idea or phrase is carried over from one line into another
• Sound


  Reinforces a poem's meaning
• Rhyme


  Often occurring at the end of lines of poetry
• Slant Rhyme


  Words do not truly rhyme but have a similar sound or appear to rhyme visually
• Rhyme Scheme


  Describe the pattern of end rhymes
• Rhythm


  Also known as beat, pattern of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
• Meter


  The number of feet that is in a line of poetry
• Repetition


  Repeating of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or even stanzas in a poem
• Onomatopoeia


  Lends itself to create sound in a poem
• Imagery


  Words and phrases that appeals to the five senses
• Figurative Language


  Describing something by comparing it with something else
• Idioms


  A combination of words that has figurative meaning
• Mood


  The feeling that a poem created in a reader
• Tone


  The attitude a writer takes towards the subject or audience of the poem
• Twist


  Tone and mood, word of choice, imagery, style, theme, structure
• Narrative Poems


  One that tells a story
• Lyric Poems


  Highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of the speaker