Octave
8 line stanza
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Extended Metaphor
Anaphora
Personification
Metonymy
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Internal Rhyme
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Exact Rhyme
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Chaismus
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Blank Verse
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
