Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Polysyndeton
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Situational Irony
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Juxtaposition
Blank Verse
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Tercet
three line stanza
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Quintet
a five line stanza
Asyndeton
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Exact Rhyme
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Diction
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Denotation
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
