Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Octave
8 line stanza
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Personification
Denotation
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
a five line stanza
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Polysyndeton
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Scansion
Litotes
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Connotation
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A play on words
Euphemism
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Ellipsis
Extended Metaphor
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Diction
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
