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
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Spenserian
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Litotes
Motif
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Juxtaposition
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Denotation
Dramatic Irony
Homophones
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Pedantry
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Repetition of vowel sounds
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Situational Irony
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
