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20 Complex Literary Terms
Synesthesia- synesthesia refers to a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time.
Paradox- statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth.
Litote- a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives
Dichotomy- a literary technique that divides a thing into two equal and contradictory parts or between two opposing groups
Synecdoche- a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.
Enjambment- moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark.
Conceit- a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors
Epigraph- The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme. Hemingway begins The Sun Also Rises with two. One of them is "You are all a lost generation" by Gertrude Stein
Iambic pentameter- a metrical foot that consists of 5 sets of unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllables—daDUM.
Anaphora- repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
Blank verse- a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter.
Asyndeton- stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy
Apostrophe- a rhetorical device used by playwrights and authors whenever their characters address a character that isn’t present in the scene
Caesura- a rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence
Juxtaposition- a literary device wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another.
Metonymy- a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
Onomatopoeia- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Polysyndeton- stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.
Sonnet- a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
Names for number of lines in a poem
Octave- a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet.
Tercet- comprises three lines following a same rhyming scheme
Quatrain- comprises four lines following a same rhyming scheme
Quintain- comprises five lines following a same rhyming scheme
Sestain- comprises six lines following a same rhyming scheme
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