poetic techniques, general language, conflict types

Question 1

internal conflict

Answer 1

inside oneself

Question 2

interpersonal

Answer 2

in between people, power play

Question 3

external conflict

Answer 3

war, countries at dispute, abuse

Question 4

simile

Answer 4

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

Question 5

metaphor

Answer 5

figure of speech that describes something by saying it’s something else

Question 6

personification

Answer 6

personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Question 7

alliteration

Answer 7

It occurs when two or more words are linked that share the same first consonant sound, such as “fish fry.”

Question 8

repetition

Answer 8

Repetition is when a single word or phrase is used multiple times in short succession for effect. It can help emphasise a point

Question 9

form

Answer 9

how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem.

Question 10

imagery

Answer 10

Literal imagery uses descriptive words that mean exactly what they say

Question 11

imperative verbs

Answer 11

words used to create an imperative sentence that gives a command to the person being addressed.

Question 12

connotations

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the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes.

Question 13

semantic field

Answer 13

the conceptual domain eg. violence

Question 14

enjambement

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continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break (structural)

Question 15

caesura

Answer 15

a break in the flow of sound usually in the middle of a line of verse (structural)

Question 16

sonnet

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14 lines, 4 lines at a time, a couplet at the end, rhymes every other line.

Question 17

couplet

Answer 17

two lines in a poem that rhyme to themselves only

Question 18

oxymoron

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contradictory terms appear in conjunction, eg. defining silence.

Question 19

volta

Answer 19

The turning point of a poem.

Question 20

Rhyme

Answer 20

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

Question 21

assonance

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Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes.

Question 22

onomatephia

Answer 22

boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter.

Question 23

S.C.I.T.T.L.E.S

Answer 23

sumarry, context, intension, themes, techniques, language, effect, structure.

Question 24

in media res

Answer 24

when a poem starts in the middle of the action

Question 25

anaphora

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repeated words or phrases at the begging of multiple lines - no more boomerang

Question 26

homonym

Answer 26

words that are spelt the same but have different meaning

Question 27

juxtaposition

Answer 27

Two opposite things

Question 28

hyperbole

Answer 28

exaggeration for emphasis

Question 29

denotation

Answer 29

literal meaning of things

Question 30

epistrophe

Answer 30

repeated words or phrases at the ends of lines - woman work

Question 31

refrain

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it's like a chorus in a song, a line that is regularly repeated throughout the poem, slightly disperced

Question 32

allusion

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making a reference to something, like in no more boomerang the gay din, aboriginal heritage, dulce est decorum

Question 33

crunching poems

Answer 33

picking the most important word on each line to get the semantic field and the themes