definitions of techniques

• Anaphora

  repetition at beginning of sentence
• asyndetic

  List without conjunctions
• Polysyndetic

  List with conjunctions
• Caesura

  Brief pause in the poem
• Peripeteia

  Turning point
• Exposition

  Introduction of a problem
• What’s a turning point?

  Peripeteia
• What’s a brief pause in the poem?

  Caesura
• Semantic field

  Words with similar meanings
• Enjambment

  Continuation of sentence without punctuation
• What’s a semantic field

  Use of words with similar meaning
• What’s a repetition at the beginning called

  Anaphora
• Listing with conjunction

  Polysyndetic