Life Style / Poetry Glossary

Anachronism: Someone or something belonging to another time period than the one in which it is described as being.

Anacoluthon : An interruption in a sentence, sometimes indicated by a pause, that is afterwards restarted in a syntactically different way. See also aposiopesis.

Anacreontic Verse: Imitations of the 6th-century b.c. greek poet anacreon, who wrote about love and wine. Thomas moore translated anacreon's odes in 1800. Abraham cowley adapted them in his anacreontics.

Anacrucis: One or two unstressed syllables at the beginning of a line that are unnecessary to the metre.

Anadiplosis : A repetition of the last word in a line or segment at the start of the next line or segment.

Anagram: A word spelled out by rearranging the letters of another word. When both lexical forms appear in the same poem, especially in proximity, a reader may reasonably suspect that the anagram is a . . . View Full Definition

Analepsis: A flashback.

Analogue: Usually a semantic or narrative feature in one work said to resemble something in another work, without necessarily implying that a cause-and-effect relationship exists (as would be the case . . . View Full Definition

Anapest : A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one. Examples include the words 'undermine' and 'overcome.' see byron's 'the destruction of sennacherib.'

Anaphora : Successive phrases, clauses, or lines start with the same word or words. Emily brontë's 'remembrance,' for example, repeats its opening phrase, 'cold in the earth.'

Antepenultima: The second last word of a line, or the second last syllable of a word.

Anthropomorphism: A figure of speech where the poet characterizes an abstract thing or object as if it were a person. See also personification.

Antibacchic: Classical greek and latin foot consisting of long, long, and short syllables / ' ' ~ / . An english example is the word 'goddamit.'

Antiphon: A sacred poem with responses or alternative parts.

Antispast: Greek and latin metrical foot consisting of short, long, long, and short syllables (i.e., an iambus and a trochee) / ~ ' ' ~ / . A possible english example is 'unblackguarded.'

Antisthecon Or Wrenched Rhyme: A rhyme created by distorting a word, such as 'samoa' for 'some more of' in the limerick 'an old maid in the land of aloha.'

Antistrophe : (1) a reply to the strophe, and the second stanza in a pindaric ode: or (2) the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive lines or clauses.

Antithesis: Contrasting or combining two terms, phrases, or clauses with opposed or antithetical meanings.

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