Literary Terms :Alliteration, Allusion, Anapest , Anti-climax or Bathos

LITERARY TERMS

Alliteration

Repetition of a consonant in two or more words. Notice the following line from Pope's The Rape of the Lock:

Puffs, powders, patches, Bibles, billet-doux.

Here "p" has been repeated thrice and "b" twice. So there are two cases of alliteration in this line. Alliteration is used both in poetry and in prose for musical effects.
Literary Terms : Blank Verse,Aphorism,Archaism, Assonance

Allusion

An implicit or indirect reference to another work of art or literature, to a historical person or event.

Example:

 Not half so fixed the Trojan could remain,

 While Anna begged and Dido raged in vain.

(Pope: The Rape of the Lock)

Here is an allusion to the dilemma of Aeneas, the hero of Virgil's Aeneid. Aeneas falls in love with Dido, the queen of Carthage. Dido implores Aeneas to marry her and get settled permanently in

 Carthage. Though Aeneas is deeply in love with her, he cannot ignore his duty to continue his voyage in search of a permanent empire for his future generation. He is torn between love and duty. This dilemma of Aeneas has been recalled here to suggest th intensity of Belinda's crisis. An allusion, which clarifies meaning and suggests a great deal in a few words, makes a work Of literature difficult to understand but adds dignity to it.

Anapest:

A metrical 'foot comprising three syllables of which the first two are unstressed and the third is stressed. Example:

Like a child / from the womb, /like a ghost/ from the tomb,

 I arise/ and unbuild/it again.

                                (Shelley: "The Cloud")

The use of anapest gives swiftness to the movement of the verse line in which it is used. Poets create the illusion of swift-movement and action by its use.

Anti-climax or Bathos:

A statement in which there is a sudden fall from the serious to the trivial, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Example:

 Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast,

                When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last;     

(Pope: The Rape of the Lock)  Here is a sudden fall of importance from husbands to dogs. Poets use anti-climax to produce humor