Quatrain
A four line stanza
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Situational Irony
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
End Rhyme
Juxtaposition
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Scansion
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Tercet
three line stanza
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Epistrophe
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Oxymoron
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Omitting conjunctions
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Pun
A play on words
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Syntax
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Exact Rhyme
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
