Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Pun
A play on words
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Apostrophe
Parallelism
Sestet
six line stanza
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
three line stanza
Repetition of vowel sounds
Couplet
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Shakespeare Sonnet
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
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
Litotes
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Digression
Octave
