Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
Mood
Diction
A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Quatrain
Paradox
Caesurae
Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.
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
Syncope
Personification
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Free Verse
Dramatic Irony
End Rhyme
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
Octave
Syllepsis
Atmosphere
Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters
Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.
Repetition of consonant sounds
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.
Sonnet
Quintet
Tercet
three line stanza
Asyndeton
Omitting conjunctions
Scansion
The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Litotes
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Chaismus
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed
Sestet
six line stanza
