Weekly Literary Terms: Anaphora, Bathos and Anti-climax, and Blank Verse

Anaphora:
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Example:
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.



Bathos and Anti-climax:
Bathos is anti-climax. An anti-climax is the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea

Example:




Blank Verse:
Blank Verse is a verse that has a meter, but does not have a rhyming scheme.

Example:
Paradise Lost