Explore all things Poetry

Jargon is the use of phrases and words that are specific to a situation, trade, a selective group, or a profession.

The rising action comes after the exposition and before the climax. It includes the complicating or inciting incident.

A tricolon is a group of three similar phrases, words, clauses, or sentences. They are parallel in their length, rhythm, and/or structure.

A proverb is a short, simple statement that gives advice. It is based in common experience.

Syncope refers to a literary device that involves the shortening of a word by removing or omitting letters.

Setting is when and where a story takes place. This could be a real place or someone completely fictional,

Arcadia, in poetry, is a term that refers to an idealized, unspoiled natural landscape. It is a utopia and perfect in every way.

An epigraph, in literature, is a phrase, quote, or any short piece of text that comes before a longer document (a poem, story, book, etc).

Litotes is a figure of speech that includes a phrase in which a negative word is used in order to express something positive.

“No pain, no gain” is used to describe the suffering that’s necessary in order to achieve one’s goals.