vocab
constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance
balance
a type of rhetorical balance where the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed
chiasmus
an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are very different (extended metaphor)
conceit
two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
couplet
Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.
didactic
A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. A Eulogy is a great praise or commendation, a laudatory speech, often about someone who has died.
elegy
Device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences
epanalepsis