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Connotation
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Pun
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Caesurae
Asyndeton
Quintet
a five line stanza
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Litotes
Homophones
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Pedantry
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Atmosphere
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Sestet
six line stanza
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
