ENGLISH - Poetry Flashcards
(19 cards)
Word choice
Use of particular words which are or can be negative or positive, and induce certain feelings in the reader. They help to create tone and mood.
The ways in which words and phrases are placed together is also important. This can be conventional or unexpected.
Diction
The type of words that dominate the text, eg. Colloquial, common, elevated, inflated. Poetic diction is a term used to describe language that is divorced from everyday speech and used in poetry or ornate prose.
Repetition
Creates increasing emphasis or establishes a pattern of sound and/or meaning.
Rhythm
Is the way in which words ‘flow,’ the movement if sound.
Enjambment
The running on of the sense of one line of poetry into the line that follows.
End - stopped
The sense that the line ‘pauses’ at the end of that line.
Alliteration
The audible repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words.
Assonance
The audible repetition of vowel sounds within words that are near to each other.
Consonance
The audible repetition of consonant sounds in words encountered near each other whose vowel sounds are different.
Rhyme
Similar sound identities of end sounds in words. It can occur within a line or at the end of lines. A rhyme that ends a line is called end rhyme whereas a rhyme that occurs within a line is called internal rhyme.
Imagery
A general term used to describe the use of language to represent things, thoughts, feelings, ideas, objects and experiences.
Simile
The comparison of one thing to another, using the word ‘as’ or ‘like.’
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another(more intense use of imagery than simile.)
Personification
The giving of human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts.
Onomatopoeia
Words which imitate sound. The sound of the word is an echo of its meaning.
Sibilance
The repetition of ‘s’ or ‘sh’ sounds in words close to one another.
Pattern
Always look for patterns of sounds, words, images and ideas in poetry.
Concrete element
How the poem looks on the page
How poetry confronts us
“Out, Out!” And “stop all the clocks”
Frost and Auden use the confronting image of an untimely death in order to convey the different effects it can have on those left to mourn
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-how the poor forced to react
-narrative intrusion forces the reader to realise the separation between the family and boy by confronting them with the experience
“And they, since they were not the one dead, turned back to their affairs.”
-help audience realise how quick his last few breaths were
“Little-less-nothing”
-reminds us that not everyone has the freedom to mourn, narrative intrusion shocks readers
“No more to build on there”
