the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Diction
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Sestet
six line stanza
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Ellipsis
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Pun
A play on words
Tercet
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
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
8 line stanza
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Asyndeton
Mood
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Digression
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Quatrain
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Metonymy
