Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Ellipsis
Polysyndeton
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Verbal irony
Antithesis
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Pedantry
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Sestet
six line stanza
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Tercet
three line stanza
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
