Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Internal Rhyme
Quatrain
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Denouement
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.
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Polysyndeton
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Chaismus
Octave
8 line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Tercet
three line stanza
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
a five line stanza
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
End Rhyme
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
