A+ Techniques
A listing of words embodying similar qualities either physical or abstract with the intent of emphasising to the reader the quality that they hold in common.
What is accumulation?
The attribution of human characteristics to anything which is non-human, usually distinct from personification in that it is more a structural feature rather than metaphorical.
What is anthropomorphism?
Two successive rhyming lines.
What is a couplet?
A belief that the nature or emotion of events is reflected in the natural world as an expression of pathos by nature.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Verse which consists of unrhymed five stress lines in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
An implicit reference to another work of literature or art, to a person, to an event, or to a modern meme.
What is allusion?
The omission of conjunctions, pronouns etc for the sake of speed and economy.
What is asyndeton?
A break or
pause
in a line of poetry dictated by the natural rhythm of the language, or
enforced
by punctuation.
What is caesura?
A writing style which seeks to depict the flow of thoughts and feelings through the mind.
What is stream of consciousness?
Verse which has no regular meter, line length, or rhyme, and depends on natural speech rhythms and opposition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is free verse?
A sentence that is begun in one way, but then ended in a different way, usually with a hyphen linking two disparate clauses. The expected grammatical sequence is interrupted.
What is anacoluthon?
A form of hyperbole which involves magnification of an event by reference to the impossible or unattainable.
What is adynaton?
The spacing of lines of verse so that the ends of sentences do not stop at the ends of lines, but flow immediately on to the next without pause.
What is enjambment?
The reflection of a writer’s attitude, manner, mood, and moral outlook within his work.
What is tone?
The section of a story or narrative where the climax is approaching and when the plot thickens.
What is epitasis?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences or clauses.
What is anaphora?
A figure of speech in which a thing, a place, an abstract quality, an idea, a dead or absent person is addressed as if they were present and capable of understanding.
What is apostrophe?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
What is epistrophe?
A combination of incongruous and contradictory words and meanings for effect.
What is an oxymoron?
A few words or a short passage spoken in an undertone or to the audience. It is a theatrical convention that the words are presumed inaudible to other characters on stage, unless of course the aside is between two characters and therefore clearly not meant for anyone else present.
What is an aside?
A set of contrasting ideas sharpened by the use of opposite or noticeably different meanings.
What is antithesis?
A terse statement of a truth; a pithy generalisation, which may or may not be witty.
An aphorism exposes and purports to give insight into a universal truth.
What is an aphorism?
A substitution where a part of an object stands for the whole.
What is synecdoche?
An object or person is represented as if it were present through description by a character or other message.
What is hypotyposis?
A brief account of or a story about an individual or an incident, usually used with the rhetorical intent of reinforcing a point.
What is an anecdote?