Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Pun
A play on words
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
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
Motif
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
End Rhyme
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Anticlimax
Octave
8 line stanza
Synecdoche
Repetition of vowel sounds
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Ellipsis
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Free Verse
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
