Terminology
Click here for an excellent glossary of terms at The Poetry Foundation
Below is a graded list of terminology you should use in essays:
Essential
poetry
drama
verse
prose
epic poem
satire
comedy
tragedy
solioquy
dialogue
iambic pentameter
blank verse
Jacobean drama
rhetorical features
diction
simile
metaphor
imagery
symbol
allusion
Desirable
meter
rhythm
stressed syllable
reversed foot
classical allusion
epic simile
catalogue
rhetorical questions
hyperbole
juxtaposition
evluative adjectives
pronouns
syntax
parenthetical phrases
dramatic irony
diction
ethos
pathos
logos
pronoun
adjective (comparative, superlative)
interrogative
alliteration
asyndetic / polysyndetic list
Admirable
iamb
trochee
spondee
emblem
anaphora
chiasmus
exordium
narratio
confirmatio
confutatio
conclusio
transferred epithet
For examples of rhetorical devices (with obscure terminology) in Paradise Lost see here. Note that it is not necessary to learn these terms but you should be aware of most of the techniques and be able to refer to them.
Below is a graded list of terminology you should use in essays:
Essential
poetry
drama
verse
prose
epic poem
satire
comedy
tragedy
solioquy
dialogue
iambic pentameter
blank verse
Jacobean drama
rhetorical features
diction
simile
metaphor
imagery
symbol
allusion
Desirable
meter
rhythm
stressed syllable
reversed foot
classical allusion
epic simile
catalogue
rhetorical questions
hyperbole
juxtaposition
evluative adjectives
pronouns
syntax
parenthetical phrases
dramatic irony
diction
ethos
pathos
logos
pronoun
adjective (comparative, superlative)
interrogative
alliteration
asyndetic / polysyndetic list
Admirable
iamb
trochee
spondee
emblem
anaphora
chiasmus
exordium
narratio
confirmatio
confutatio
conclusio
transferred epithet
For examples of rhetorical devices (with obscure terminology) in Paradise Lost see here. Note that it is not necessary to learn these terms but you should be aware of most of the techniques and be able to refer to them.