Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Personification
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.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Apostrophe
Scansion
Syncope
Sestet
six line stanza
Mood
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Octave
8 line stanza
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Litotes
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Repetition of consonant sounds
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
