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| A direct address to a person not there, inanimate object or abstract quality. |
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Combination of two words that contradict one another.
eg: Bittersweet |
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| A part of something to represent its whole. |
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To fuse different senses by describing one sense in terms of another.
eg: her voice sounded so sweet |
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds.
eg: 'I rose and told him of my woe' |
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The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to keep the meter of a line of poetry.
eg: "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame" |
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| A reference to a person, event, thing outside the poem. |
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| Free from consistency of rhyme, line length and metrical from |
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| Poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme; its subject is traditionally that of love |
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| A pause for a beat in the rhythm of the verse |
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