Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Syncope
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Syllepsis
Pun
A play on words
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Synaesthesia
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Tercet
Dramatic Irony
Couplet
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Quatrain
A four line stanza
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Balanced Sentences
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
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
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
six line stanza
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Apostrophe
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Blank Verse
