Sestet
six line stanza
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
A four line stanza
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds
Oxymoron
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
Epistrophe
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Syntax
Litotes
A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour
A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
Atmosphere
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Parallel Structure
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Tercet
three line stanza
Spenserian
A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.
8 line stanza
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Paradox
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Scansion
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Inexact/Slant Rhyme
It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Ellipsis
A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Syllogism
