1. Literary Terms
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2. An extended comparison showing the similarities between two things.
Analogy
An extended comparison showing the similarities between two dissimilar things.
Example: comparing the heart to a pump.

3. Caesura
A pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line. Caesuras are indicated by the symbol //. Example: From the hag and hungry goblin || that into rags would rend ye, And the spirits that stand || by the naked man || in the Book of Moons, defend ye!

4. Image
A word, phrase or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions.
Example:
He has a hyena's laugh.
Her face is a garden.
Her eyes were endless pools of beauty.

5. Yet know I how the Heather looks
Inversion
A reversal of the usual order or words to receive some sort of emphasis.
Example: I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson
I never saw a Moor –
I never saw the Sea –
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.
I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven –
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Chart were given --

6. Pathos
The feelings of pity, sympathy, or sorrow aroused by a literary work. Also known as emotional appeal.
Example: “Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.” (Hamlet)

7. Sarcasm
A strong form of verbal irony that is calculated to hurt someone through, for example, false praise. Example: “Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two.” (Tale of Two Cities)

8. Satire
A genre or mode that ridicules human vice and folly in order to expose or correct it.
Example: Jonathan Swift’s essay, A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public.
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”