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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. |
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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences
Strike as I struck the foe! Strike as I would |
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| a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical. |
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digression
I think that--did you know the boat's taking on water?--we should go for tea. |
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figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.
"He knowingly lied and we followed blindly" |
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| Concrete details are details that are perceived through the senses. (Touch, smell, hear, taste, seeing), such as soft, stench, red, loud or bitter. |
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| a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero. |
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| a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight |
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| a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site |
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| a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work |
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| pe of lyric poem: a lyric poem, usually expressing exalted emotion in a complex scheme of rhyme and meter |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion. |
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| the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, esp. to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing |
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| a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction. |
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