A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Syllepsis
Syllogism
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Motif
Shakespeare Sonnet
Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
Situational Irony
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
three line stanza
Ellipsis
three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation
Connotation
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Caesurae
Anaphora
Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.
Exact Rhyme
Uses words with identical end sound
Using the same conjunction lots of times
Parallelism
Synaesthesia
A four line stanza
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Anticlimax
a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events
Epiphany
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
