a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Blank Verse
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Scansion
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Omitting conjunctions
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Octave
8 line stanza
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
a five line stanza
Colloquial
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Spenserian
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Sestet
six line stanza
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Syllepsis
Pun
A play on words
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
