Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Syntax
Litotes
Parallelism
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Repetition of vowel sounds
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Synecdoche
Metonymy
A four line stanza
Apostrophe
Epistrophe
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
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.
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Antithesis
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Anticlimax
Personification
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Tercet
three line stanza
