Oxymoron
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Synecdoche
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
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.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Octave
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Metonymy
Synaesthesia
Quintet
a five line stanza
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Balanced Sentences
Diction
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Pun
Shakespeare Sonnet
Motif
Epistrophe
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
