Literary Devices: Literature (Short Stories/Novels)

Unrhymed iambic pentameter; common in Shakespeare’s plays and most English-language poetry. Elegy A poem of sorrow, often about the death of someone admired by the poet. E.g., What Whitman’s elegy for Abraham Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!” Epic A long narrative poem (see “narrative poetry”) that tells of the deeds of a

  Iambic