Iamb
A metrical pattern of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
Imagery
A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste,
touch, hearing, and smell. The use of images serves to intensify the impact of the work. The
following example of imagery in T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
uses images of pain and sickness to describe the evening, which as an image itself represents society
and the psychology of Prufrock, himself.
Inference
A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on
facts or circumstances. For example, advised not to travel alone in temperatures exceeding fifty
degrees below zero, the man in Jack London's "To Build a Fire" sets out anyway. One may infer
arrogance from such an action.
Irony
Irony takes many forms. In
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