A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
A four line stanza
Epistrophe
Sestet
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Oxymoron
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Dramatic Irony
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Atmosphere
Digression
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Sonnet
Situational Irony
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
The dictionary definition of a word
Mood
Motif
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Ellipsis
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Tercet
three line stanza
