Studied by 123 peopleverbal irony
a writer says one thing, but means something different
situational irony
occurs when something happens that is entirely different from what would be expected
dramatic irony
when the audience of a story knows something important that a character in the story does not know
satire
a form of writing in which humor is used to point out flaws in society
blank verse
a metrical verse that does NOT use a rhyme scheme/rhyme
metrical verse
a type of verse that both rhymes and has meter
free verse
a type of verse that does not rhyme nor has any meter
caesura
the use of punctuation that causes a pause within a line or lines of poetry when read aloud
end stop
the use of punctuation that causes a stop or break in reading at the end of each line of poetry when read aloud
enjambment
the lack of punctuation that would cause stops at the end of lines of poetry
rhyme scheme
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem and may be noted as ABAB, ABCB, etc.
stanza
a division of a poem created by arranging lines into a unit; a poem paragraph
verse
a specific style or form of poetry
repetition
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern done for a desired effect
paradox
a statement or proposition that contradicts itself
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