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Enjambment: Continuation from one line of verse into the next without terminal punctuation.
"Formally, the poem is, and remains, decorous: the couplets move in an orderly manner, despite frequent enjambment."
- The Guardian (blog)-28 May 2018
Litotes: An understatement for rhetorical effect. A statement is made about what is, by saying what is not.
We were going through the three first acts, and not unsuccessfully upon the whole.
Deus Ex Machina: A god introduced into a play to resolve the plot.
"Ginobili was San Antonio’s deus ex machina, its god from the machine who existed outside of the Spurs’ system to swoop down and save it when the plot lines seemed too tangled for the protagonists to prosper."
- clutchpoints.com
Alliteration: The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words.
The light from the porthole was a pulsing purple.
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Onomatopoeia: The figurative term for words that attempt to imitate a sound.
"I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."
Deux ex machina is a plot device. In a hopeless situation, something happens to save the day. Aeschylus introduced this idea in ancient Greek theater where a god would be introduced to the stage with the help of a machine; either lowered down using a crane, or lifted up through a trap door with a lift.
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Terms explained
Enjambment: Continuation from one line of verse into the next without terminal punctuation.
"Formally, the poem is, and remains, decorous: the couplets move in an orderly manner, despite frequent enjambment."
- The Guardian (blog)-28 May 2018
Litotes: An understatement for rhetorical effect. A statement is made about what is, by saying what is not.
We were going through the three first acts, and not unsuccessfully upon the whole.
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Terms explained:
Deus Ex Machina: A god introduced into a play to resolve the plot.
"Ginobili was San Antonio’s deus ex machina, its god from the machine who existed outside of the Spurs’ system to swoop down and save it when the plot lines seemed too tangled for the protagonists to prosper."
- clutchpoints.com
Alliteration: The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words.
The light from the porthole was a pulsing purple.
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Onomatopoeia: The figurative term for words that attempt to imitate a sound.
"I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore."
- Isle of Innisfree, William Butler Yeats.
Deux ex machina is a plot device. In a hopeless situation, something happens to save the day. Aeschylus introduced this idea in ancient Greek theater where a god would be introduced to the stage with the help of a machine; either lowered down using a crane, or lifted up through a trap door with a lift.