Oxymoron
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Connotation
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
six line stanza
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Dramatic Irony
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Denotation
Synecdoche
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
A play on words
Juxtaposition
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Syntax
Parallelism
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
