Uses words with identical end sound
A four line stanza
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Blank Verse
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Syntax
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Juxtaposition
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Tercet
three line stanza
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Situational Irony
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Personification
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
a five line stanza
Mood
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
