Using the same conjunction lots of times
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Syntax
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Octave
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Tercet
three line stanza
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Uses words with identical end sound
Sestet
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Connotation
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Blank Verse
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Shakespeare Sonnet
Pun
A play on words
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
