Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Blank Verse
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Connotation
A four line stanza
Colloquial
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Repetition of vowel sounds
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Pun
A play on words
Sestet
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Octave
8 line stanza
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
a five line stanza
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Tercet
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Caesurae
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Scansion
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
