Tone
A four line stanza
Colloquial
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
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
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Couplet
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Omitting conjunctions
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Sestet
six line stanza
Damning with faint praise
Anaphora
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Syllepsis
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Consonance
