Poetic Techniques Flashcards
(24 cards)
Rhythm
Arrangement of words to form regular beat through pattern,
Sibilance
Hissing sound when there is reappeared ‘s’ sound
Simile
To compare one thing with another using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Sonnet
1 stanza (14-line poem)
Stanza
Group of lines forming unit in poem.
Symbol
Used to stand for/ represent something else
Tone
Authors attitude towards subject of work/ audience
Zoomorphism
Animal characteristics assigned to humans
Monologue
Extended speech by one person in literature drama
Mood
Feeling/ atmosphere of poem
Onomatopoeia
Word that sounds like what it means
Oxymoron
Phrase consisted of 2 words which are contradictory e,g bitter sweet
Pathetic fallacy
Personification where emotions are given to setting, weather etc
Personification
Metaphor attributing human feelings to an object
Consonance
Same consonant repeats with words. E.g creep and beep while you sleep
Emotive language
Language intended to create emotional response
Enjambment
When sentence runs over from line of verse to the nect
Hyperbole
Use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect
Metaphor
Descriptive technique. Names person, thing, actions as something else.
Alliteration
Repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words
Anthropomorphism
Attribution of human characteristics to animals/non human things. E,g the tiger rushed in, he hadn’t done his homework.
Colons
Used before list, quotation/answer
Semi colons
E,g her cape is yellow; his cape is green
Dash
Informal, used instead of semicolon/ colon,
