Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Balanced Sentences
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Pun
A play on words
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Diction
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Sestet
six line stanza
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Chaismus
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
