Spenserian
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Internal Rhyme
Asyndeton
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Tercet
Quintet
a five line stanza
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Colloquial
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Pun
A play on words
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Oxymoron
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Sestet
six line stanza
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Metonymy
Homophones
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
