Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Diction
Tercet
three line stanza
Extended Metaphor
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Assonance
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Syncope
Situational Irony
Tone
Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
Quintet
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
Motif
Quatrain
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Sestet
six line stanza
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
Balanced Sentences
a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing
Polysyndeton
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Euphemism
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
