A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Repetition of vowel sounds
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Epistrophe
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
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.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
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
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
A four line stanza
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Parallel Structure
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Parallelism
8 line stanza
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Exact Rhyme
Couplet
Syntax
Polysyndeton
three line stanza
