Parallelism
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Extended Metaphor
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Blank Verse
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.
Pun
Couplet
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Synaesthesia
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
six line stanza
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Pedantry
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Octave
8 line stanza
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
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
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
