Juxtaposition
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Repetition of vowel sounds
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Extended Metaphor
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Motif
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Scansion
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
The dictionary definition of a word
Exact Rhyme
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Octave
8 line stanza
Tercet
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
