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text that mocks and ridicules its subject matter, and without saying as much. It suggests that there is a better way to do things. Satire can be spoken or written, e.g. Animal Farm(Orwell), or visual, e.g. a political cartoon in a newspaper.
a sound device in which similar or identical vowel sounds are repeated in nearby words, e.g. the...
See Petrarchan sonnet.
a figure of speech which shows an apparent contradiction or disagreement between two words, in...
any writing in poetic form. See blank verse and free verse.