Anaphora
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Denouement
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Octave
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Mood
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Quintet
a five line stanza
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
A play on words
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Sestet
six line stanza
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Anticlimax
Juxtaposition
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Parallel Structure
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
