A moment of sudden revelation or insight
8 line stanza
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Connotation
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Tone
Anticlimax
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Tercet
Ellipsis
Sestet
six line stanza
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Sonnet
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Syllogism
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Caesurae
A four line stanza
