Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
Assonance
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Sestet
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Quatrain
Connotation
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Syllogism
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
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
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Blank Verse
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Anticlimax
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
