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
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Pun
A play on words
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Homophones
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
a five line stanza
Extended Metaphor
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Repetition of consonant sounds
Situational Irony
Sestet
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Caesurae
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Sonnet
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
