Diction:
Alliteration - repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds.
Assonance - repetition of vowel sounds.
Onomatopoeia - Imitates the natural sounds of a thing.
Irony
Hyperbole
Litotes - understatement by using double negatives.
Form:
Repetition
Enjambment
- Meaning flows from line to line
- Mimics rambling thoughts/consciousness
- Reinforces the first word
End-stops
- Emphasize, reinforce and enact meaning (Pause,Surprise,Silence,Suspense)
- Slow down
Stanza and Rhyme
# of lines per stanza - Name
3 - Tercet
4 - Quatrain
5 - Quintain
6 - Sestet
8 - Octet/Octave
Different # - Free Verse (Unnatural, unpredictable)
Rhymes:
Full Rhyme (Cat, Mat)
Sight Rhyme (Rough, Through // Love, Move)
Internal Rhyme (Found within the poem, not at the end of lines)
