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Repetition of consonants, vowels, and/or syllables in close proximity within a line. Only consonants at the beginning of words.
Ex: Passive plebeians preserve peace, Vicious villains venerate violence |
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A grammatical construction in which an inversion or reversal of normal word order takes place for the sake of emphasis in meaning, rhythm, melody, or tone. Like Yoda.
Ex.: Echoed the hills ( The hills echoed) |
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The opposite of.
Ex.: Fire heals what love cannot |
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A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an absent quality, object or person as if it were present and sentient.
Ex.: Wind blow as you have never blown before! |
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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds-especially in stressed syllables-in a sequence of words close to one another.
Ex.: Lake Bait |
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A pause in the rhythm or meter of a line. Can be caused by punctuation, syntax, rhyme, or the sound and meaning of the preceding word.
Ex.: To err is human;
To forgive, divine. |
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Harsh and jarring sounds. The opposite of euphony.
Ex: Blow wild wind, greet the Dunes with your goon like strength. |
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The close repetition of identical or similar consonants of words whose main vowels differ. Only consonance in the middle/end of words.
Ex.: Nash, gush, swoosh |
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The close repetition of identical or similar consonants of words whose main vowels differ. Only consonance in the middle/end of words.
Ex.: Nash, gush, swoosh |
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A line ending in which the syntax, rhythm, and thought are continued and completed in the subsequent line. Opposite of caesura.
Ex: How I wish I were stronger
And sixth hour were longer |
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A pleasing combination of sound and rhythm. Opposite of cacophony.
Ex.: The silent seas strolled though the strong recesses of my mind. |
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An unstressed syllable at the end of a regular metrical line of iambics or anapests, added for its music. Opposite of masculine ending.
Ex.: Like a graveyard, marble sculpture in the weather |
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Any set of regularly rhyming and metrically patterned verse forms.Opposite of free verse
Ex.: Sonnet |
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| Un-metered and often irregularly lined-out un-rhymed verse that depends upon extensive variation in rhythm, balanced phrasing, syntactical repetition, and typographical and grammatical oddness to achieve its effects. Opposite of fixed form. |
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A rhetorical form of comparison that uses exaggeration or obvious overstatement for comic or dramatic effect. Opposite of understatement.
Ex.: AHHH! Not squirrels! |
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A rhyme that occurs within a material line in order to create a musical or rhythmical effect different from that of "end-rhyme"
Ex.: He seeks the meek within all,
To give and live |
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| A brief reference, implied or explicit, to a well known character, event, or place, or to another artistic. |
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When a set of rhymed words ends in accented or stressed syllables. Opposite of feminine ending.
Ex.: Back out of all this now too much for us/Back in a time made simple by the loss |
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Figure of speech that replaces the subject for its characteristics or its characteristics for its subject.
Ex.: Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana are so similar that they are known as "the South" |
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Lending human qualities to abstraction or animate or inanimate objects, designed to evoke emotion.
Ex: The ship strolled though the jagged waves. |
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The formation of words whose sounds and/or rhythm imitate that referential sound itself.
Ex: Bark, slap |
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Links opposite and contradictory attributes that result in a paradox
Ex: Icy hot/ Expect the unexpected!/ The living dead |
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| A phrase, line, or stanza recurring regularly at the end of stanzas, or irregularly throughout the poem. |
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Particular attributes of one thing are explicitly compared with particular attributes of another thing, usually suing the words like or as.
Ex: In an almost unbelievable scene, the chicken cut though the air like the noble birds of prey. |
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A general term for harmonic sound vales that are not full rhymes assonantly or consonantally, but are partial rhymes.
Ex: blood/good, hour/saw, tuck/look, poem/sum |
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A tonal and stylistic strategy of restraint, opposite of hyperbole or overstatement.
Ex: Oh, don't worry about them, stampeding elephants rarely hit their target. |
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