poetic terminology

Question 1

The emotion that the poet is conveying to the reader

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Tone

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A comparison when we say one thing is ‘like’ something else

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Simile

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A pair of consecutive rhyming lines

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Rhyming couplet

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Pause or break in a line of poetry

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Caesura

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A figure of speech that compares unlike objects

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Metaphor

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The meanings implied by a particular word

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connotation

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A group of words that together create a theme in a text. E.g blood, ooze is a semantic field of violence

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Samantic field

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A trio of rhyming lines

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Rhyming triplet

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Extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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Where a word or phrase has 2 or more possible meanings

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Ambiguity

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A variations language spoken by people from a certain place or background

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Dialect

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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming

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assonance

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The central idea of the poem- what the poem Is about

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Theme

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A word which mimics the sound or action it refers to

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Onomatopeia

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Line of verse with 5 metrical feet, each one consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable.

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Iambic pentametre

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Use of hard, strong consonant sounds b, d, k, p at the beginning of words

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Plosive

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When an object represents something else

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Symbolism

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When words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean or when there is a difference between what people expect and what actually happens

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Irony

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Something that makes you feel a particular emotion

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emotive

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A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a second meaning

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Allegory

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A group of lines within a poem

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Stanza

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When animals or objects are said to have human characteristics

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Personification

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Repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words

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consonance

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When a line of poetry runs not the next line creating a flowing effect

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Enjambment

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Language used by the poet to persuade you of a particular point of view

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Rhetoric

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one person speaking at length

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Monlogue

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The same sound is repeated at the start of words that are close together

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Alliteration

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The use of sibilants such as s, ch, zh, sh

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Sibilance

Question 29

To use figurative language to create a vivid picture in the mind of the reader

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Imagery

Question 30

A metaphor which is sustained over several lines or throughout an entire poem or text

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Extended metaphor

Question 31

Audio - hearing
Tactile - touch
Visual - sight

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Types of imagery: audio, tactile, visual

Question 32

An indirect word or phrase used instead of something upsetting or offensive

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Euphenism

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A form of poem with 14 lines, following a clear rhyme theme

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Sonnet

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A turning point in the poem, when the argument or the changes dramatically

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Volta

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A phrase which deliberately contradicts itself

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Oxymoron