Poetic device.
When one part of speech is used in place of another. Most commonly, nouns in place of verbs.
Example: Table that agenda item until next month.
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28 October 2008
Anthimeria
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Anaphora
Poetic device.
The repetitive of parallel structures, such as the beginning phrase of adjacent sentences or lines.
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Anapest
Poetic foot.
Notation: xxX
As with the dactyl and amphibrach, the anapest is often used in light verse in English poetry.
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Anacrusis
Poetic device.
Adding unstressed syllables to the beginning of a line. These extra syllables are not considered part of the first foot.
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27 October 2008
Anaclasis
Poetic Device
Substituting different measures to break up the rhythm. Getting things not quite right.
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Anachronism
Poetic Device
Misplacement of an object, event or person chronologically.
Example: Christian church bells announcing the time in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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Amphigory
Poetic Term
Nonsense verse, especially in the case of nonsense parodies.
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Amphibrach
Poetic Foot
Notation: xXx
A three-syllable rhythmic pattern with a single stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables. Like most triple meters in English amphibrachic lines lend themselves to humorous verse.
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Allusion
Poetic Device
An indirect reference to some cultural titbit, such as a Greek god or cultural event.
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Alliteration
Poetic Device
Repetition of initial or stressed consonants. It is used heavily in accentual verse and sports headlines.
Example: Dodgers dazzle the Sox and leave them dazed.
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Allegory
A story in which things and events have some hidden meaning. Often used for moral or Gnostic instruction.
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Alexandrine
Poetic Line
It comes from the French who don’t believe their language is stressed. As such, their poetry is syllabic, and the Alexandrine is a twelve-syllable line. It is as important to the French as iambic pentameter is to English poetry. In English iambic hexameter is often considered Alexandrine.
Schema:
xX xX xX xX xX xX.
or
xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Adynaton
Poetic Device
Hyperbole on steroids. Adynaton expresses impossibility using extreme comparisons.
Example: Pigs will fly before he gets that machine off the ground.
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Adonics
An Adonic is a two-foot line: Xxx Xx or Xxx XX. It is more often found as a tagline on the end of a stanza than as separate stanzas.
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Acephalexis
Poetic Device
Truncation of unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line.
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Accentual-Syllabic Verse
Accentual-syllabic verse is based on counting both stressed and unstressed syllables. It uses specific patterns, such as iambic pentameter or the classical hendecasyllabic. Every syllable counts to create the proper rhythm and flow of the meter. Most of the verse forms that the English created based on Italian or French forms are accentual-syllabic. While blank verse is an exception, many other accentual-syllabic forms rhyme. Geoffrey Chaucer and his generation of poets were largely responsible for the fusion of the accentual of English and the syllabic of French into the modern English accentual-syllabic forms.
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Accentual Verse
Method of measurement.
Measuring poetry as accentual verse, one only counts the stressed syllables in the line, so a line might have four stresses and anywhere from four to sixteen syllables and still be considered a four-stress line. Many forms of accentual verse use alliteration to tie the stresses together.
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Acatalectic
A verse that has all of its unaccented syllables in the final foot.
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Abstract Language
Language representative of ideas rather than physical objects
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