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
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Homophones
Denouement
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Sestet
six line stanza
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Tone
Syllepsis
Pun
A play on words
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Tercet
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Digression
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Euphemism
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Scansion
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
8 line stanza
Anaphora
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
