Fallacy
A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
Ode
A long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme; a form of lyric poetry using elaborate, sophisticated vocabulary in iambic pentameter. It usually focuses upon a single object or person.
Palindrome
A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backwards or forward.
Non Sequitur
In Latin means "does not follow
Parable
A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.
Parody
A text that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
Octave
A verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter.
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Rhetoric
The art or study of language effectively and persuasively.
Repartee
Witty, quick, comebacks or remarks or conversation.
Redundancy
Supe.rfluous overlapping of words or ideas
Rhetorical question
A question solely for effect, with no answer expected.
Rondeau
French Style lyric poetry and song of the 14th and 15th centuries. The full form consists of four stanzas. The first and last are identical; the second half of the second stanza is a short refrain, which has as it text the first half of the first stanza.
Rhyme royale
Seven-line iambic pentamenter stanza rhyming ababbcc. The rhyme royal was first used in English verse in the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Stock Character
Stereotyped character: one whose nature is familiar from prototypes in previous fiction.
Semantics
The philosophical and scientific study of meaning in natural languages.
Solecism
a nonstandard usage or grammatical construction; a violation of etiquette.
Spoonerism
an accidental transportation of initial consonant sounds or parts of words, especially in an amusing way.
Soliloquy
A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.
Scansion
A system for describing more ore less conventional poetic rhythms by dividing the lines into feet; the process of measuring verse, that is, of marking accented and unaccented syllables, dividing the lines into feet, identifying the metrical pattern , and noting significant variations from that pattern.
Strophe
First part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode.
Syllogism
the underlying structure of deductive reasoning, having a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion based on logic.
Syntax
The way in which linguistic elements are put together to form constituents.
Threnody
poem or song of mourning or lamentation.
Triplet
A tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, a,a, a.
Versification
The art or practice of writing verse.
Triolet
A short poem or eight lines with only two rhymes used throughout; the first line is repeated in the fourth and seventh lines; the second line repeated in the final line; and only the first two end words are used to complete the tight rhyme scheme. ABaAabAB, where capital letters indicate Repeated lines.
Vernacular
The standard native language of a country or locality.