- "She was the black sheep of the family"
- 5 lines; Syllables: 5, 7, 5, 7, 7; a lot of sensory imagery of an event or mood
- The tortoise and the hare from that one fairytale thing
- "In some melodious plot,Of beechen green,Singest of summer in full throated ease."
- Using adjectives to describe words when the adjectives you are using do not relate to the word you are describing; a blending or intermingling of different sense modalities.
- When the opposite of what we mean or expect happens
- It is a literary technique in which animal attributes are imposed upon non-animal objects, humans, and events; and animal features are ascribed to humans, gods, and other objects.
- Mourns the death of an individual and walks through the cycle of mourning, celebration, and acceptance
- Where a thing - an idea or an animal - is given human attributes
- Is asked just for effect, or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed, when no real answer is expected; may have an obvious answer, but the questioner asks it to lay emphasis to the point
- When a related term is substituted for the word itself; often the substitution is based on a material, causal, or conceptual relation between things.
- A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part; may also use larger groups to refer to smaller groups, or vice versa
- 14 lines; 1 stanza; ABBAABBA - next 6 lines can be = CDDCEE or CDCDCD or CDEEDE
- A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly, but which may include a latent truth; is often used to make a reader think over an idea in an innovative way.
- ABCB DBEB etc; quatrains; usually a song or tells a story; 4 stress 3 stress alternating lines
- Combines contradictory words with opposing meanings
- 6 stanzas; 19 lines; first 5 stanzas have 3 lines; last stanza has 4; ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA; Lines 1, 6, 12, and 18 repeat; Lines 3, 9, 15, and 19 repeat
- A short, often amusing or interesting, story, of a personal account of an event that occurred in one's life, used to communicate an abstract idea.
- A play on words that exploits different possible meanings of a word or similarity in appearance and sound between two words
- An explicit comparison between two unlike things through the use of connecting words, usually "like" or "as."