Sestet
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Syllogism
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Consonance
Juxtaposition
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Euphemism
Sonnet
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Digression
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Motif
Internal Rhyme
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Tercet
Octave
8 line stanza
