Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Asyndeton
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Pun
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
End Rhyme
Pedantry
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Exact Rhyme
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Denouement
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Colloquial
Anticlimax
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
