Octave
8 line stanza
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Oxymoron
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Repetition of consonant sounds
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Synaesthesia
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
A play on words
Quatrain
Syntax
Denouement
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Couplet
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
a five line stanza
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
six line stanza
