Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Denotation
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Blank Verse
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Ellipsis
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Sestet
six line stanza
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Damning with faint praise
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Parallelism
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Digression
Synaesthesia
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
A four line stanza
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
