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| The organization of words, phrases and clauses in a sentence; the tactics of word order. |
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The disruption of the usual word order in a line or sentence.
Example: Something wicked this way comes. |
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| A verbal agreement in which elements of equal weight within phrases, sentences, or paragraphs are expressed in a similar grammatical order and structure. |
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| A line of a verse that ends in a full pause, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation |
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| "Stepping over"; a run-on line of poetry; in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next (without punctuation). |
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| A strong pause within a line of verse, often marked by punctuation. |
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| A group of surrounded lines gathered together, like a paragraph in prose. Usually surrounded with white space. Can also be identified with indentation, metrical pattern, or recurring rhyme scheme. |
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| Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet |
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| Rhyme scheme: ABBAABBA CDECDE or ABBAABBA CDCDCD. Basically this sonnet composes of a octave, and a sextet. The octave develops the idea, question, or problem; then the poem pauses, or "turns," and the sextet completes the idea, answers the question, or resolves the difficulty. |
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| Contains only a subject or a verb. |
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| Have subject and a verb. Independent Clauses form complete thoughts. Dependent Clauses do not (we wouldn't put a period after them) |
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| Type of imagery across the entire text ( e.g food, nature, body part) |
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| The rhythm of imagery where there are many images, then a break, then a solitary image. |
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Description of one kind of sense experience in relation to another, such as the attribution of color or taste to sounds
Ex: bitter cold, loud color, velvet voice |
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| Placing of propositions or clauses one after another, without expressing with connecting words the relation between them. |
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| Use of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions in order to hierachize the sentences information. Hypotactic sentences connect parts of sentences with words that express relations of time, logic, and syntax. |
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| a kind of figurative language equating one thing with another. It asserts the identity, without a connective such as "like" or a verb such as "appears" of terms that are literally incompatible. |
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| Comparison of two things indicated by some connective, usually "as", "like", "than", or a verb like "resembles" |
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| A kind of figurative language in which the whole stands for a part, or a part stands for a whole. |
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| A kind of figurative language in which a word or phrase stands not for itself but for something closely related to it. |
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| Exaggeration used to emphasize a point. |
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| A figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics. Personification allows the author to dramatize the nonhuman world in tangibly human terms. |
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3 quatrains, 1 couplet
abab cdcd efef gg
iambic pentameter |
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| 5 tercets and a final question |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word |
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| The group of ideas implied but not directly indicated by the word |
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| Generally, a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. |
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| The state of affairs known to the audience or reader is the reverse of that what its participants supposed it to be. |
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| Set of circumstances turns out to be the reverse of what is appropriate or expected. |
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| Often takes the form of understated irony. Sarcasm (from Greek: sarkazein - to tear flesh) is intended to hurt, not correct. |
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| Involves a contrast between what is literally said and what is actually meant. Verbal irony also requires the reader to detect the discrepancy between the denotative meaning of the words and the author's intention in using them. |
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| Writing which hold persons, ideas, or things in varying degrees of ridicule or contempt in order to bring about some desirable change. |
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| Rhymes at the end of lines. |
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| Rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable. |
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| Rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate syllable of the words.(picky, sticky,tricky) |
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Rhymes at the center of the lines.
(Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December) |
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| Near rhyme that has an auditory resemblance but no exact rhyme, as in The room and Storm. |
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| Words that look as though they rhyme,but don't. Cough, bough, rough. Touch, vouch. |
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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
While I nodded, nearly napping. |
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| Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds in words. WHose Woods knoW hOUse thOUgh |
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| Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in words. Down, profound, round, round, downs |
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