Writing+Tools

Here is a list of writing tools I found with links for further reading. -Daniel


 * ** [|Accent] **: refers to the stressed portion of a wrong word. An accent is used to place emphasis on a word.


 * Note**: stress and accent can be used interchangeably.**


 * ** [|Allegory] **: A description that has a second, usually moral meaning.
 * ** [|Alliteration] **: is the repetition of initial (at the beginning) CONSONANT sounds (if it's a vowel repetition, you would call it assonance. Assonance includes any repetition of a vowel sound in any part of the word. It usually occurs in the middle of words).
 * ** [|Allusion] **: refers to an event from an external content. It is understandable only to those with prior knowledge of the reference in question (as the writer assumes the reader has).
 * ** [|Apostrophe] **: Something that addresses an object or person or idea who is not present as though he/she/it could reply.
 * **Antithesis**: The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to create a feeling of balance (e.g Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell)
 * ** [|Assonance] **: The repetition of vowel sounds may also add to euphony.
 * **Aubade**: Poetry referring to either the dawn, a love song or about parting lovers.
 * ** [|Ballad] **: A form of poetry in a specific meter meant to be sung. There is always a repeating refrain and it is always narrative in form. See below for more information.
 * ** [|Blank verse] **: Iambic Pentameter that doesn't rhyme. (Much of Shakespeare's plays for example were written in blank verse.)
 * **Caesura**: A cut or break in a line, could be a comma or a semicolon.
 * ** [|Cacophony] **: Harsh sounding and generally unpleasant.
 * ** [|Consonance] **: The repetition of consonant sounds NOT in the beginning of a word (which would be alliteration). Enforces relation.
 * **Continuous Form**: Lines follow each other without any type of structural organization except by blocks of meaning.
 * **Didactic Poetry**: Poetry with a directly morally teaching purpose.
 * ** [|Euphony] **: Pleasant sounding.
 * ** [|Extended Figure] **: An apostrophe, simile, metaphor, etc. which is developed throughout a poem.
 * ** [|Imagery] **: Language which appeals to each of the five senses.


 * **visual imagery**: Sight. The most frequent type.
 * **Aural or auditory imagery**: Sound.
 * **Olfactory imagery**: Smell.
 * **Gustatory imagery**: Taste.
 * **Tactile imagery**: Touch, tangibility.
 * **Organic imagery**: Human sensations, hunger for example.


 * ** [|Irony] **: Dramatic or otherwise, conveying an aspect that is intrinsically unexpected or self-contradictory.
 * ** [|Metaphor] **: A direct comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as".
 * ** [|Onomatopoeia] **: Words which are written to mimic a sound. (SHAZAM! SPLAT! PLOP!)
 * ** [|Paradox] **: A statement which appears to contradict itself but makes sense (usually in an abstract sense).
 * ** [|Personification] **: Animals or objects are given human characteristics.
 * ** [|Phonetic Intensive] **: A word whose sound emphasizes its meaning.
 * ** [|Prose] **: Language which is not in meter.
 * ** [|Refrain] **: A repeated line, phrase, sentence, etc. which appears throughout a poem.
 * ** [|Rhetorical Poetry] **: Poetry written in superfluous language with the intention of being overdramatic.
 * **Rhyming Couplet**: Two lines at the end of the scene indicating a scene change.

**Advanced Vocabulary for the Daring**
 * ** [|Scansion] **: The process of measuring verse.
 * ** [|Sonnet] **: See link.
 * ** [|Tone] **: The writer's attitude toward the subject.


 * ** [|Anaphora] **: Repetition of the same word or words from the beginning of sentences, lines, or phrases.
 * ** [|Ars Poetica] **: A poem about poetry
 * ** [|Conceit] **: The comparison of two dissimilar things. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
 * ** [|Dramatic monologue] **: Narrator speaks to himself. The speaker is not the author.
 * ** [|Epiphany] **: A realization or comprehension of the essence of something.
 * ** [|Feminine Rhyme] **: Two syllable (Disyllabic) rhyme consisting of stressed syllable followed by unstressed
 * ** [|Incantation] **: Use of words to create an archaic effect. (Opening scene of Macbeth and the Weird Sisters)
 * ** [|Incremental repetition] **: Repetition of succeeding stanzas with small substitutions of changes.
 * ** [|Masculine rhyme] **: Monosyllabic rhymes.
 * ** [|Metonymy] **: Substitutes the name of one thing with something closely associated with it.
 * ** [|Synecdoche] **: Substitutes a part of one thing to represent the whole, or vice versa.
 * ** [|Pathetic fallacy] **: A reflection of the action/events through nature/weather. (A thunderstorm during the creation of Frankenstein's monster sequence)
 * ** [|Persona] **: The character created by the narrator.
 * ** [|Synaesthesia] **: A blending of sensations.
 * ** [|Trope] **: A way of extending the meanings of words beyond the literal.

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