Anaphora
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Tercet
three line stanza
Free Verse
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Pedantry
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
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
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Synaesthesia
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Quatrain
Omitting conjunctions
Sestet
six line stanza
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Octave
8 line stanza
Personification
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Assonance
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Epiphany
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Parallelism
Connotation
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
