Poetry Flashcards
(30 cards)
Personification
Something non-human given human qualities.
Rhetorical Question
A question that isn’t meant to be answered.
Imagery
A picture created in the minds eye by the words on the page.
Pun
A joke using a play on words.
Satire
The use of humor to criticise something.
Alliteration
When words that begin with the same sound are placed beside or close to one another.
Assonance
The repitition of broad vowel sounds.
Onomatopea
When a word sound like its’ meaning.
Metaphor
When one thing is described as being something else.
Name 3 poems and their authors
Base Details
Siegfried Sassoon
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Personal Helicon
Seamus Heaney
What is the theme of Base Details?
A satirical poem that mocks the inequalities of war.
What is Base Deatails about?
It mocks an unfit major.
He isn’t a source of inspiration for the soilders.
Quote using Visual Imagery, Base Details.
“If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath”
We imagine the major in an unflattering way, bad tempered and overwieght.
Quote using Alliteration, Base Details.
“My puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,”
Alliteration can be used to set the tempo of a poem, in this example it slows the poem down.
Pun, Base Details.
The Tiltle of the poem contains a pun.
Base has 2 meaning, a camp/building, and disgusting.
Deatils has 2 meanings, list or army instructions, and information.
Satire, Base Details.
The major is being mocked and satirised.
Tone, Base Details.
Sarcastic and Critical.
Theme, Sonnet 18.
Love and Romance
What is Sonnet 18 about?
It explores how their love will survive death.
Quote using metaphor, Sonnet 18.
“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?”
He compares who he loves to a nice Summers day.
Quote using Personification, Sonnet 18.
“Nor shall death brag thou wanter’st in his shade,”
Personification of death.
Rhetorical Question, Sonnet 18.
“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?”
No answer is needed as he continues to compare her to a summer day.
Rhyming Scheme, Sonnet 18.
Rhyming Scheme of ABAB such as in lines 1, 2, 3, 4: “day” “temperate” “May” “date”
Tone, Sonnet 18.
Confindent and Passionate.
