A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Juxtaposition
Ellipsis
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Mood
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Free Verse
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Shakespeare Sonnet
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Damning with faint praise
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
