Octave
8 line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
Sestet
six line stanza
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Tone
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Polysyndeton
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
A four line stanza
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Antithesis
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Quintet
a five line stanza
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Homophones
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
