Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal 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.
Verbal irony
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Damning with faint praise
(fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Motif
(n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design
Ellipsis
Pun
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Epiphany
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
(n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Tercet
three line stanza
8 line stanza
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Homophones
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
Sonnet
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Euphemism
Metonymy
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
