A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Denotation
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Digression
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Assonance
Free Verse
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
three line stanza
Couplet
Tone
Repetition of consonant sounds
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
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Colloquial
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
