War poetry organiser

Question 1

Sibilance

Answer 1

Repetition of ‘s’ sounds in close succession- often harsh, smooth, or sickly

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds in close succession

Question 3

Plosive

Answer 3

Repetition of ‘b’, ‘p’, ‘t’, or ‘d’ sounds in close succession- often aggressive

Question 4

Sonnet

Answer 4

A poem, unusually about love, in 14 lines written in a formal rhyme scheme.

Question 5

Blank Verse

Answer 5

Verse without rhyme, which is usually written in iambic pentameter.

Question 6

Mood / Tone

Answer 6

The feelings created for the reader / by the author

Question 7

Speaker

Answer 7

The voice of the poem

Question 8

Volta

Answer 8

A turning point in a poem, often associated with sonnets.

Question 9

Juxtaposition

Answer 9

The contrast of something with something else

Question 10

Tricolon

Answer 10

Three words, phrases, or clauses in succession

Question 11

Enjambment

Answer 11

The running over of a sentence from one line/stanza of the poem to another without closing punctuation

Question 12

Internal Rhyme

Answer 12

Repetition of syllable sounds in one line

Question 13

Caesura

Answer 13

A stop or pause in a line of poetry, caused by punctuation

Question 14

Stanza Length

Answer 14

A stanza can be isolated (one line), a couplet (two lines), a tercet (three lines), a quatrain (four lines), a quintain (five lines), a sestet (six lines), a septet (seven lines), an octave (eight lines) etc.

Question 15

Anaphora

Answer 15

Repetition of words at the start of lines or clauses

Question 16

Language

Answer 16

Sibilance, Assonance, Plosive

Question 17

Form

Answer 17

Sonnet, Blank Verse, Mood/tone, Speaker

Question 18

Structure

Answer 18

Volta, Juxtaposition,Tricolon, Enjambment, Internal Rhyme, Caesura Stanza Length, Anaphora