The dictionary definition of a word
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
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
Balanced Sentences
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Tercet
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Quatrain
Juxtaposition
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Sestet
six line stanza
Damning with faint praise
8 line stanza
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Syncope
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Exact Rhyme
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Paradox
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
