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Cacophony

Harsh or disconant word sounds

Chiasmus

Repetition of any group of verse elements e.g. ABBA rhyme scheme

Litotes

Under exaggeration

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Oxymoron

A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect

Pathetic Fallacy

When the weather or seasons reflect the mood of a poem

Similie

A comparison made with 'like'

Volta

In Italian it means 'turn', it is the turn of thought or argument

Motif

A certain or recurring image or action in a literary work that is shared by other works and may serve an overall theme

Allegory

An extended metaphor in which the characters, places and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning often an allegory's meaning is religious, moral or historical in nature

A syndetic Listing

A list without connectives or conjunctions

Anaphora

The repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of a successive lines of writing or speech

Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Enjambment

Where the lines of a poem do not end but run on

Sibilance

Repetition of the letter s

Euphony

Smooth sounding words

Carpe Diem

In Latin "seize the day" the fleeting nature of life and the need to embrace its pleasures constitute a frequent theme of love poems.

Hyperbole

Extreme Exaggeration

Neologism

Made up literary words as in Lewis Carrols Jabberwocky

Paradox

As a figure of speech it is self contradictory

Poetic Licence

A poets departure from the rules of grammar, syntax and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme, can also mean the manipulation of facts to suit the needs of a poem

Synechdoche

A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole e.g. a set of wheels

Ubi Sunt

Poems about the transitory nature of life and the inevitability of death. These poems question the fate of the strong and virtuous.

Metaphor

A comparison that is made directly or indirectly

Anthropomorphism

A form of personification in which human characteristics are attributed to anything inhuman

Syndetic Listing

A list separated by connectives

Onomatopoeia

The use of words that evoke sounds

Personification

Attributing something that isn't human human characteristics

Caesura

A break or multiple breaks in a line of a poem

Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds