Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Damning with faint praise
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Juxtaposition
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Repetition of consonant sounds
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A play on words
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Connotation
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Spenserian
Shakespeare Sonnet
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Quintet
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Antithesis
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
