The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Asyndeton
Uses words with identical end sound
Pun
A moment of sudden revelation or insight
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence
Syncope
cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Parallelism
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Oxymoron
Sestet
six line stanza
Shakespeare Sonnet
Balanced Sentences
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Tercet
three line stanza
The dictionary definition of a word
These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.
the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
Apostrophe
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
Colloquial
Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Antithesis
