Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
a five line stanza
Sestet
six line stanza
A four line stanza
Octave
8 line stanza
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Diction
Situational Irony
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Polysyndeton
A play on words
Mood
Apostrophe
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Chaismus
Spenserian
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Paradox
Anticlimax
Sonnet
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
