Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Parallelism
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
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
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
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 word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
8 line stanza
Denouement
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
A play on words
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Internal Rhyme
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Parallel Structure
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Pedantry
Syllogism
Paradox
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Blank Verse
Apostrophe
Quintet
a five line stanza
