Elements

Question 1

Imagery

Answer 1

Uses our bodies’ five senses to evoke an image, which triggers emotions.

Question 2

Lines & Stanzas

Answer 2

Two lines: couplet 
Three lines: triplet
Four lines: quatrain 
Five lines: cinquain 
Six lines: sestet 
Eight lines: octet 
Each stanza develops a new idea.

Question 3

Rhyme & Rhyme Scheme

Answer 3

Adds a musical sound to help convey a mood. Can change when a new idea is introduced.

Question 4

Rhythm

Answer 4

Made up of a pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables with a beat to build a mood.
Stressed words = important to the subject

Question 5

Free verse

Answer 5

Written without a regular rhyme, rhythm or pattern. Emotional reaction is usually more intense because of free flow.

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

Uses ‘sound’ to create an image by the repetition of the same sound at the start of several words or sentences.
Alliterated words emphasise the movement or things that need to be imagined and remembered.

Question 7

Simile

Answer 7

Comparison between two things, using “like” or “as”.

Creates images easily –> can be confronting –> better conveying of messages.

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

Gives human qualities to animals, objects or ideas because it adds life to the poem, whivh helps readers to sympathise.

Question 9

Symbol

Answer 9

Suggesting another, larger meaning from an idea or object.

Question 10

Mood

Answer 10

The feeling the poem creates.
Shorter sentences = more confronting.
Longer sentences = time-stand-still impression.

Question 11

Tone

Answer 11

The attitude towards the subject of the poem.

Found by the kind of words that describe the central idea.