Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Tone
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Denotation
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Sestet
six line stanza
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Epistrophe
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
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
Parallel Structure
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Free Verse
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Repetition of vowel sounds
Syncope
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
