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A fin-de-siècle poet’s attempt to retain the beauty of a lost love is built around unsettlingly violent imagery
In this post, we answer the question of what are tropes in writing, and we look at a few examples to help show what tropes are and whether they're good or bad.
This Encyclopedia Britannica list explains 10 frequently confused literary terms.
PinkBadger—iStock/Thinkstock Poetry is a precise art. A great poem is made up of components that fit together so well that the result seems impossible to imagine any other way. But how to describe those meticulously chosen components? With highly specialized terminology, of course. Thanks to centuries of effort by scholars, you too can identify the most-nuanced part of a poem with a single word (or two)! Epizeuxis (\epə'züksəs\) Hark, hark! Words, words, words. Never, never, never, never, never! Epizeuxis is a term that describes the repetition of a word for emphasis. (William Shakespear...