Oxymoron

Two contradictory terms put together

-The living dead

-Jumbo shrimp

-deafening silence

Paradox/Oxymoron

Oxymoron is a two-word paradox, a statement or phrase thatseems contradictory but is actually true. Jumbo shrimp is an oxymoron. You have to be cruel to be kind is a paradox.

Juxtaposition

putting two ideas close to each other, especially for the purpose of comparing and contrasting them

"Juxta" means “next to”; "pos" means "placed."

Allusion

A reference to something else.

Those two kids are like Romeo and Juliet.

Don't act like a Scrooge.

Caesura is the use of a pause in a line of poetry.

Let's look at these examples in Simon Armitage's untitled poem known as 'Mother, any distance'.

ENJAMBMENT

• CONTINUATION OF A SENTENCE WITHOUT A PAUSE AND WITHOUT PUNCTUATION

• STANZAS 1,4, 5