A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Octave
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Personification
Oxymoron
Pun
A play on words
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Dramatic Irony
Uses words with identical end sound
Situational Irony
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Denouement
Sestet
six line stanza
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Boost!
Boost!
Denotation
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Epistrophe
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
Octave
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Tercet
three line stanza
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Quatrain
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Parallel Structure
Boost!
Boost!
Consonance
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Chaismus
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Sonnet
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Sestet
six line stanza
Metonymy
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
Duel!