a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Situational Irony
Colloquial
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Epistrophe
Spenserian
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Syllogism
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Sestet
six line stanza
three line stanza
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
