Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Paradox
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Atmosphere
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Polysyndeton
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Epistrophe
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Syllepsis
Mood
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Couplet
Octave
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Connotation
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
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.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
