A form of irony where a seeming contradiction turns out to be a profound truth, for example, Jesus' words: ‘So the last shall be first......

A line of poetry made up of ten (occasionally eleven) syllables or five ‘feet’. The rhythm is nearly always iambic

Frequently used pejoratively to describe writing which lacks originality, pastiche has been given a kind of respectability by the so-called

One way writers give coherence to very long sentences (or paragraphs) is the use of parallelism

I find this word, which literally refers to optical illusions in space, a useful trope for lexical ambiguity, whether deliberate or accident