Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Digression
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Sestet
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Blank Verse
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Polysyndeton
Pun
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
