Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Pedantry
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Octave
8 line stanza
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Denouement
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.
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Shakespeare Sonnet
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Pun
A play on words
a five line stanza
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Free Verse
Repetition of consonant sounds
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Mood
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
