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Terza Rima |
An arrangement of triplets, especially in iambs, that rhyme aba, bcb, cdc, etc. Ex: Dante's "Divine Comedy" 0 wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: 0 thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and Preserver; hear, 0 hear! |
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Eye rhyme or sight rhyme |
A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation. Ex: "love" and "move" |
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Villanelle |
19 line poem with 2 rhymes throughout consisting of 5 tercets and a quatrain (3 lines, 4 stanzas) Ex: "Mad Girl’s Love Song" Sylvia Plath “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan’s men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you’d return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)” |
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Enjambment |
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza Ex: "Endymion" John Keats “A thing of beauty is a joy forever:Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and asleepFull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” |
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Anaphora |
The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence to avoid repetition Ex: "do" in "I like it" and "So do they" |
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Caesura |
(in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot (in a modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line Ex: Mozart- oh how your music makes me soar! |
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Epistrophe |
The repetition of a word at the end of a successive clauses or sentences Ex: "The Unnamable" Samuel Beckett “Where now? Who now? When now?” |
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Anastrophe |
The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses Ex: "Star Wars" Yoda "Powerful you have become; the dark side I sense in you." |
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Chiasmus |
The order of words is reversed in parallel expressions that are found in 2 or more clauses. Ex: “His time a moment, and a point his space.” (Alexander Pope, Essay on Man) |
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Euphony |
Camouflages direct, unfriendly, or disagreeable expressions Ex: "Six feet under" |
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Cacophony |
Used as a tool to describe a discordant situation using discordant words. Ex: Coleridge’s “Rime to the Ancient Mariner” “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,Agape they heard me call.” |
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Synecdoche |
A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. Ex: "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad “At midnight I went on deck, and to my mate’s great surprise put the ship round on the other tack. His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism.” |
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Antonomasia |
The substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name Ex: "Scrooge" for a miser |
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Synesthesia |
A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. Ex: John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale" “Tasting of Flora and the country green,Dance, and Provencal song, and sun burnt mirth!” |
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Litote |
An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary Ex: “not a bad singer” or “not unhappy” |
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Metonymy |
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant Ex: "the track" for horse racing |
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Parallelism |
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. Ex: Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism” “To err is human; to forgive divine.” |
