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Situational Irony
Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Free Verse
Quatrain A four line stanza
Tercet three line stanza
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Oxymoron
Uses words with identical end sound
Quintet
Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Ellipsis three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Syllepsis
Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Dramatic Irony when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Repetition of vowel sounds
Frozen!
Frozen!
Juxtaposition
Boost!
Boost!
Extended Metaphor
Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times
A play on words
six line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
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
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Using the same conjunction lots of times
A four line stanza
Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds
Pun A play on words
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
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions
Frozen!
Frozen!
Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Tercet three line stanza
Frozen!
Frozen!
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Sestet six line stanza
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Octave 8 line stanza
Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Boost!
Boost!
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Diction
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds
Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Syntax
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