Monday- Poetry Terms

Alliteration- the repetition of an initial sound
Anaphora-the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.( Contrast with epiphora  and epistrophe).
Antithesis- the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Apostrophe- Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate  object, or a nonexistant character.
Assonance- Identify or similar in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Chiasmus- A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
Euphemism- The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Hyperbole- An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Irony-The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Litotes- A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Metaphor- An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Metonymy- A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetoric strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
Onomatopoeia- The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions the refer to.
Oxymoron- A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
Paradox- A statement that appears to contradict itself.
Personification- A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
Pun- A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Simile- A stated comparison (usually formed with " like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
Synecdoche- A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole(for example, ABC's for alphabet) or the whole for a part ( "England won the World cup in 1966").
Understatement- A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.