Personification
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Quatrain
A four line stanza
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Digression
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Parallelism
Syntax
Sonnet
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Connotation
Homophones
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Anaphora
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Shakespeare Sonnet
Pun
A play on words
Colloquial
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Oxymoron
Dramatic Irony
Asyndeton
