End Rhyme
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Couplet
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Consonance
Connotation
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Dramatic Irony
six line stanza
Syntax
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Tercet
three line stanza
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Digression
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Pun
A play on words
Octave
8 line stanza
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
