Meter

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

meter

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Iambic

u / u / (unstressed, stressed)

Dactylic

/ u u

Trochiac

/ U / U

Anapestic

U U /

Spondiac

/ /

Modernism

artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions

Mood

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader

Motif

A recurring theme, subject or idea

Narrator

Person telling the story

Onomatopoeia

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Paradox

A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Parody

A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.

Metonymy

A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it