Literary Devices Defined

7. Anachronism: an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece

8. Paradox: a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth

9. Allegory: a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events

10. Rhyme (near, end, internal):

- Internal: a type of rhyme in which a word at

the end of a verse rhymes with another word in

the same line

- Near: a type of rhyme formed by words with

similar but not identical sounds

- End: a rhyme that occurs in the last

syllables of verses

11. Meter: a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem