Structure Tehcniques Flashcards
A line continuing onto the next one
e.g. she loves the woods
in summer
Enjambement
words, phrases or techniques being used again and again
e.g. shame, shame, shame
Repetition
Ordering things in a specific way
e.g. Money, fame, power, greed…
Listing
Two ideas running together
e.g. “love is like death,”…”love is fatal wound,”
Parallelism
Questions that aren’t meant to be answered
e.g. how could you say such a thing?
Rhetorical questions
3 ideas next to each other
e.g. I tried to scream, I tried to cry, I tried to shout
Rule of three
Word repeated at the start of each clause/sentence
e.g. Be brief or be bold
Anaphora
A line of verse broken by punctuation
e.g. to be or not to be, that is the question
Caesura
Two sentences next to each other that mirror each other
e.g.
Antimitabole