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caricature

  • description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect

enjambment

  • the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

caesura

  • pause in the middle on the line (coma/ full stop)

lineation

  • how lines are divided and where they end in relation to a clause or thought. Having a line break at the end of a phrase or complete thought is a regular and expected pattern

alliteration

  • the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

anaphora

  • repetition of words

sibyls

  • repeating of the letter “s” at the beginning of a sentence – links to whispering

hypophora

  • answers the question

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