Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Quintet
a five line stanza
Metonymy
Sestet
six line stanza
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
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
Sonnet
Ellipsis
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
three line stanza
Syncope
Situational Irony
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
8 line stanza
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Atmosphere
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Digression
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
