Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Synaesthesia
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Mood
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Repetition of vowel sounds
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Paradox
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
8 line stanza
Digression
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Uses words with identical end sound
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
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
Ellipsis
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
