2016
Regular
Contemporary
2025
Doubt & Fear
Memory & The Past
Police Brutality
Racial Injustice
Analogy
a figure of speech that creates a comparison by showing how two seemingly different entities are alike, along with illustrating a larger point due to their commonalities
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Assonance
The repetition of similar vowel sounds that takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line; usually refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same.
Caesura
a break between words within a metrical foot
Extended Metaphor
a metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire poem
Idiom
a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase
Rhetorical Question
a question asked for effect, not necessarily to be answered
Simile
a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”