Octave
8 line stanza
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Scansion
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Shakespeare Sonnet
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A play on words
Parallel Structure
Pedantry
Consonance
six line stanza
A four line stanza
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Repetition of vowel sounds
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Metonymy
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Uses words with identical end sound
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Caesurae
Quintet
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
