Quatrain
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Pun
A play on words
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Octave
8 line stanza
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
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.
a five line stanza
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Syntax
Apostrophe
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Anticlimax
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Metonymy
Blank Verse
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
