Literary terms (p-z)
Keats' 'Ode on Melancholy' expresses the idea that joy cannot exist without sadness. The existence of one depends on the existence of the other: The use of human emotions to describe inanimate natural objects such as weather or animals. The extract below, from 'Wuthering Heights' uses a description of the weather to signify Heathcliff's anger: About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over the...