Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Asyndeton
Consonance
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
Euphemism
Denouement
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Tercet
three line stanza
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Epistrophe
Balanced Sentences
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
8 line stanza
Chaismus
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Anticlimax
a five line stanza
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
