Assonance

Assonance is the refrain of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks ...

assonance

Literature; Poetry

The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words, date and fade.

summary

Literature; Literary techniques

A shortened version, containing only the most important points as a simple statement that ties together the main facts or ideas.

apostrophe

Literature; Literary techniques

A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.

zeugma

Literature; Literary techniques

Two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them.

tautology

Literature; Literary techniques

Repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence.

synecdoche

Literature; Literary techniques

Understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part.

prolepsis

Literature; Literary techniques

The anticipation, in adjectives or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb; also, the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent.

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Quantum of the Seas

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