Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
8 line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
Consonance
Damning with faint praise
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Syllogism
Ellipsis
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Quatrain
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Quintet
a five line stanza
Pun
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Repetition of vowel sounds
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
