Uses words with identical end sound
Repetition of vowel sounds
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Quatrain
Pedantry
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
End Rhyme
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Sestet
six line stanza
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Tercet
three line stanza
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Dramatic Irony
Syntax
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Epistrophe
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Parallelism
Extended Metaphor
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Caesurae
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
