POETRY KNOWLEDGE

Question 1

Structure of answers

Answer 1

Coat hanger statement (w/ summary of both poems’ subject)

STRIVE =
Structure & form
Tone, rhyme & rhythm
IVE - Language (imagery, vocabulary, & effect)

(& context - interleaved)

Question 2

What is Anaphora?
What does it show?

What is Refrain?
What does it show?

Answer 2

Anaphora = repetition at the start of the line.

Refrain = a line or phrase that is repeated at regular intervals.

Question 3

What is Assonance?
What does it show?

What is Consonance?
What does it show?

Answer 3

Assonance = internal rhyme usually centred on vowel sounds.

Consonance = recurrence of constnant sounds in close proximity in line of poetry.

Question 4

What is Caesura?
What does it show?

What is Enjambment?
What does it show?

Answer 4

Caesura = punctuation in the middle of a line.
• important moment or contemplating something
• inconsistency & uncertainty

Enjambment = no punctuation at the end of a line.
• fluidity & stream of consciousness

Question 5

What is Half Rhyme?
What does it show?

What is Internal Rhyme?
What does it show?

Answer 5

Half Rhyme = when the words look like they should rhyme but don’t.
creates discord

Internal Rhyme = rhyme within the sentence.

Question 6

What is Free Verse?
What does it show?

What is Blank Verse?
What does it show?

Answer 6

Free Verse = doesn’t have the traditional look (format) of a poem.

Blank Verse = when the poem has a rhythm but no rhyme scheme.

Question 7

Quatrain = 4 line stanza.