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Complication
(Rising Action)

-When Odysseus' ship is torn apart by Poseiden.
-When Odysseus' men open the bag of winds and they are pushed further away from Ithica.
Connotation
Mending Wall
by
Robert Frost

And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the WALL between us once again.
We keep the WALL between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

Free Verse
Song of Myself
by
Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

breaks formality and traditionality of poetry.
Ode
____ to my Froggie. ( we wrote this type of poem in 7th grade, thanking the frog for letting us disect it.)

I knew not your age whence you were killed
Oh, amphibious wonder, I gratefully approach
With the scalpel I am quite unskilled
And for my cuts I beg you'll not reproach

-Mrs. Krauss

(I can't remember mine to save my life, and quite honestly I would rather not have to think about dissecting that poor frog anymore... thanks Mrs. K for the poem)
Understatement
"It's just a flesh wound."
(Black Knight, after having both arms cut off, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Subplot
In the main plot of a romance, one or both of the main characters may resist commitment. Another couple in the story, perhaps friends, confidantes, or coworkers of the main characters, are also falling in love but having problems that show aspects of the love relationship the primary story line does not. The main characters, through their involvement with the other couple, may learn from what they see and come to realize their own love for each other should not be denied.
Epigram
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

or

"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or ________, than with any amount of reasoning."
Aubade
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Ballad
Twas Friday morn when we set sail,
And we had not got far from land,
When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid,
With a comb and a glass in her hand.

Chorus
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.

Then up spoke the Captain of our gallant ship,
And a jolly old Captain was he;
"I have a wife in Salem town,
But tonight a widow she will be."

Chorus

Then up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship,
And a greasy old Cook was he;
"I care more for my kettles and my pots,
Than I do for the roaring of the sea."

Chorus

Then up spoke the Cabin-boy of our gallant ship,
And a dirty little brat was he;
"I have friends in Boston town
That don't care a ha' penny for me."

Chorus

Then three times 'round went our gallant ship,
And three times 'round went she,
And the third time that she went 'round
She sank to the bottom of the sea.

-The Mermaid
Elision
Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet,
Whiles crooning O'ER an auld Scots sonnet,
Whiles glow'ring round wi prudent cares,

(now this might just be the southern accent, but I couldn't resist ^^ )

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,
AN' it looks like its CLIMBEN' clear up to the sky.

Oh what a beautiful MORNIN',
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a wonderful feeling,
Everything's going my way.

...They don't turn their heads as they see me ride by.
But a little brown MAV'RICK is winking her eye.

The breeze is so busy it don't miss a tree,
And an OL' WEEPEN' Willer is LAUGHEN' at me.

-Oh what a beautiful mornin' from Oklahoma
Metonymy
One of the most common examples of this figure of speech is using ' Washington' while referring to the government of the United States of America or 'sword' to describe military power

in poetry: Out, Out by Robert Frost:

'We have always remained loyal to the crown', that means the people are loyal to the king or the ruler of their country.

'The pen is mightier than the sword' refers that the power of literary works is greater than military force.


Open form
Without invention nothing is well spaced,
unless the mind change, unless
the stars are new measured, according
to their relative positions, the
line will not change, the necessity
will not matriculate: unless there is
a new mind there cannot be a new
line, the old will go on
repeating itself with recurring
deadliness: without invention
nothing lies under the witch-hazel
bush, the alder does not grow from among
the hummocks margining the all
but spent channels of the old swale,
the small foot-prints
of mice under the overhanging
tufts of the bunch-grass will not
appear: without invention the line
will never again take on its ancient
divisions when the word, a supple word,
lived in it, crumbled now to chalk.

-William Patterson
Satire
“Weekend Update” from Saturday Night Live

most political cartoons in newspapers and magazines

the songs of Weird Al Yankovic
Synecdoche
All hands on deck

white-collar criminals

(think of a pie, a slice of pie representing the entire pie... or cake if you must. Whatever floats your boat)
Rhythm
theres a circle of witches,

ambitiously vicious they are.

our attempts to remind them of reason

wont get us that far.

(read it out loud. tap your pencil along when reading it out loud. also, ignore the spaces in-between the lines, it was the only way to make it look as such.)

also in music.
Elegy
"I hold it true, whate'er befall;/I feel it when I sorrow most;/'Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all."-"In Memoriaum A.H.H." by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

"Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,/Compels me to disturb your season due:/For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,/Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer"-"Lycidas" by John Milton

(kind of depressing wouldn't you say...)
Epic poem
THE Odyssey by Homer (not just the Odyssey. but THE odyssey. it's just that epic)
Parody
(oh goodness...)

just look on youtube my dear.

“Scary Movie” (spoof on horror movies)

SNL

ALL the Twilight spoofs

just think of the Brotzels singing "I am adorable, so precious. I'm a teen sensation! Oh!"
Quatrain
Oh the birds are singing,

In a nest of broken sticks,

Look what they are bringing,

It's nutrition for their chicks.

(I found this one ^ humorous)

has a rhyming scheme. For example: ABAB, ABCD, AABA BBCB, CCDC etc.)
Irony
Three kinds of this.

1. verbal
2. situational
3. dramatic

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
(Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove, 1964)