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an imaginative comparison of two dissimilar images, often used in the metaphysical poetry of the 17th century, e.g. This flea is you and I, and this our marriage bed. (Donne)
the use of symbols to represent something, e.g. H signifies that a hospital is nearby. Each...
a notice in a newspaper or magazine reporting on the death of a person. Longer obituaries report...
the person who tells the story. She or he determines the way the narrative and characters are...
a line of poetry with a pause at the end, sometimes signalled by a punctuation mark, e.g. The...