Dramatic Irony
Mood
Personification
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Quintet
a five line stanza
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Caesurae
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Syllogism
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Tone
Tercet
Sonnet
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
A play on words
Omitting conjunctions
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
