Poetic terms Flashcards
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what is the effect of using alliteration?
Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.
Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.
alliteration
what is the effect of using connotations?
Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.
Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.
Connotations
what is the effect of using a pun?
Intended to have a humorous or rhetorical effect.
Intended to have a humorous or rhetorical effect.
Pun
what is the effect of using enjambment? (when the sentence, rhyme, or idea continues onto the next line of the poem)
Can create a sense of flow, perhaps reflecting on the speaker’s outpouring of emotion.
Can create a sense of flow, perhaps reflecting on the speaker’s outpouring of emotion.
Enjambment (when the sentence, rhyme, or idea continues onto the next line of the poem)
what is the effect of using a caesura? *in exam!!!
Creates a pause, allowing readers to consider the words around the pause in depth.
Creates a pause, allowing readers to consider the words around the pause in depth. *in exam!!!
Caesura *in exam!!!
what is the effect of using imagery?
To help readers to visualise and to highlight certain ideas or themes.
To help readers to visualise and to highlight certain ideas or themes.
Imagery
what is the effect of using assonance? (The repetition of similar or identical vowels throughout a sentence. E.g. the owl hooted through the wooded trees. You can see that the ‘oo’ sound is repeated.)
Can create a sense of rhythm and help to make a line more memorable. It can also slow the line down.
Can create a sense of rhythm and help to make a line more memorable. It can also slow the line down.
Assonance (The repetition of similar or identical vowels throughout a sentence. E.g. the owl hooted through the wooded trees. You can see that the ‘oo’ sound is repeated.)
what is the effect of using juxtaposition?
To highlight comparison or contrast.
To highlight comparison or contrast.
Juxtaposition
what is the effect of using a metaphor? (E.g. ‘Her eyes were sapphires’)
Creates a memorable image and creates connections to different ideas.
Creates a memorable image and creates connections to different ideas.
Metaphor (E.g. ‘Her eyes were sapphires’)
what is the effect of the tone of a poem?
This controls your (the reader’s) emotional response to the poem.
This controls your (the reader’s) emotional response to the poem.
Tone
what is the effect of using allusion? (A word or phrase that suggests something else, normally a reference to something well known, or familiar. E.g. In Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ she makes a reference to Muhammad Ali’s famous ‘fly like a butterfly’)
Can make a comment about something by comparing it to another well-known idea.
Can make a comment about something by comparing it to another well-known idea.
Allusion (E.g. In Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ she makes a reference to Muhammad Ali’s famous ‘fly like a butterfly’ Can make a comment about something by comparing it to another well-known idea.)
what is the effect of using personification?
Adds energy and an element of relatability to something that would otherwise be lifeless.
Adds energy and an element of relatability to something that would otherwise be lifeless.
Personification
