Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Atmosphere
Connotation
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Mood
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Syllepsis
Pun
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Epiphany
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Sestet
six line stanza
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Paradox
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Quatrain
Dramatic Irony
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Apostrophe
Anticlimax
