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diction the author's choice of words (Wright's The Blessing - Suddenly I realize/ That if I stepped out of my body I would break/into blossom) didactic primary purpose is to teach: parables in the Bible dirge a song for the dead dissonance the grating of incompatible sounds; a non-harmonious chord (1. the clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel ... 2) situational dissonance: You are a strict vegetarian but you see a stylish leather jacket on sale and want to buy it) doggerel crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme ("Said the big red rooster / to the little brown hen / 'You haven't laid an egg / Since goodness when ... ) doppelganger Seemingly exact doubles who appear often as a forecast of death or disaster dramatic monologue single speaker in literature talks to silent audience dramatic poem a poem that has a conflict dystopia opposite of utopia, a society where social and technological advances have served to aid corruption elegy lyric poem on death or mortality encomium a laudatory poem for a legendary or real person enjambment continuation of syntax over line break enumeratio listing parts, cause, or effect, for added emphasis epic a long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style; often describes glorious or profound subject (Homer's the Iliad and Odyssey) epigram a short poem intended to impart wisdom epigraph a quotation that is placed at the start of a work or section that expresses what will be said epiphany a sudden realization or comprehension of the meaning of something epistle a letter directed or sent to a group of people epistrophe repetition of same words at the end of sentences or phrases (Emerson's "What lies between US and what lies before US are tiny compared to what lies within US") epitaph lines that commemorate the dead at the burial place epithalamium a poem that is written for the bride; celebration of a wedding epithet a word which makes the reader see the object described in a clearer or sharper light. It is both exact and imaginative (ex: "blindfolding night," "whipped clouds," "panicky trees," etc) epizeuxis repetition of the same word for emphasis (Macbeth's "O horror, horror, horror") eponym substituting the name of a famous person for a description (He's a real Einstein) eulogy formal expression of praise usually given at a funeral euphemism a word that takes the place of a more harsh or inappropriate word euphony sounds blending harmoniously euphuism elegant Victorian prose style filled with alliteration and similes, balanced sentence construction, and allusions; highly elaborate and artificial style ("So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench / Are from their hives and houses driven away") exemplum citing an example; a tale with a moral message expletive word interrupting syntax to give emphasis to words around it ("All truth is not, indeed, of equal importance") eye of the poem the central focus of the poem eye rhyme words that look similar, but are pronounced differently; also called visual rhyme and sight rhyme; refers to rhymes based on similarity of spelling rather than sound: wind/find, slaughter/laughter, love/move falling rhyme feminine rhyme; ending with unaccented last syllable: painted, matted, marshal farce a comedy of unlikely, but possible, situations; has improbable incongruities: Malvolio in shakespeare's Twelfth Night