DRAFT GCSE English- Literary and Poetic Devices

Spondee

Metrical foot comprised of two consecutive stressed syllables (/ /)

Trochee

Metrical foot consisting of a stressed and then unstressed syllable (/ u)

Catalexis

A metrically incomplete line of verse

• either lacking a syllable or ending the line on an incomplete foot

Elision

The omission of one or more sounds in a word or phrase (Christmas)

Anagnorisis

The moment when a character makes a critical discovery

Mise en abyme

Mise en abyme describes a relation of reflection: the inner element resembles or comments on the containing work.

• mirrors in paintings are a good example

Solecism

ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence - linguistical blunder

• also could be a social faux pas

Hendiatris

Epanorthosis

Hendiadys

Anastrophe

Isocolon

Litotes

Antanaclasis

Anacoluthon

Epizeuxis

Homoioteleuton

Symploce

Prosopopoeia

Syllepsis

Apogee

Metonymy

Strychomythia

Ekphrastic

Diacope