Octave
8 line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Shakespeare Sonnet
Frozen!
Frozen!
Sestet
six line stanza
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Boost!
Boost!
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Boost!
Boost!
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Polysyndeton
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
A four line stanza
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Antithesis
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Quintet
a five line stanza
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Homophones
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Polysyndeton
Frozen!
Frozen!
Homophones
Frozen!
Frozen!
Asyndeton
Oxymoron
Boost!
Boost!
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Connotation
Denouement
8 line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Couplet
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Boost!
Boost!
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Digression
six line stanza
Epiphany
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Consonance
Metonymy
Quintet
a five line stanza
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Ellipsis
Duel!