Parts of Speech
By placing the word 'very' in front of this part of speech, you can identify it as this part of speech.
Adjective
The repetition of a word or phrase, usually at the beginning of a line.
Anaphora
An excessive exaggeration.
Hyperbole
The high point; the moment of greatest tension or intensity. The climax can occur at any point in a poem, and can register on different levels, e.g. narrative, rhetorical, or formal.
Climax
Used for contractions and to denote possession.
Apostrophe
This part of speech can change tense.
Verbs
The repetition of vowel-sounds.
Assonance
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true):
Oxymoron
An underlying message.
Theme
Used to separate three elements in a grouping. Also a popular university.
Oxford Comma
Countable, proper, pronouns.
Nouns
An audible pause internal to a line, usually in the middle. (An audible pause at the end of a line is called an end-stop.)
Caesura
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g., rain cats and dogs, see the light).
Idiom
A representation that is not always easily observed.
Symbol
Periods, question marks, exclamation points.
Terminal Punctuation
These help show manner, location, direction, and spatial relationships.
Prepositions
A “paragraph” of a poem: a group of lines separated by extra white space from other groups of lines.
Stanza
Narrative with two levels of meaning, one stated and one unstated.
Allegory
Often seen as a hero or a character that undergoes a dramatic change.
Protagonist
An appositive is a noun or noun phrase ( appositive phrase) that gives another name to the noun right next to it. You use these to separate the pieces of information.
Commas
Often appear next to main/lexical verbs. Examples include have, will, and are.
Auxiliary Verb or Helping Verb
Two lines of verse, usually rhymed.
Couplet
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words:
Alliteration
Word choice, specifically the "class" or "kind" of words chosen.
Diction
Used in place of a comma to separate phrases or items in a list or series when the phrases or items themselves contain commas or are especially long.
Semicolon