Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
A play on words
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Syllepsis
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Synecdoche
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
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.
8 line stanza
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Exact Rhyme
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
a five line stanza
Antithesis
Oxymoron
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
