The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Synecdoche
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Pun
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 four line stanza
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Balanced Sentences
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Octave
8 line stanza
Euphemism
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
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
Pedantry
