Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Balanced Sentences
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Situational Irony
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Synaesthesia
Repetition of consonant sounds
Euphemism
Litotes
Couplet
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
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
Personification
Pun
A play on words
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Quatrain
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Tercet
three line stanza
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Pedantry
