English poetry Flashcards
What is alliteration?
It’s the same consonant at the start of each word.
What is assonance?
It’s the repetition of a vowel sound.
What is enjambment and what is it’s effect?
It’s the continuation of a line into the next.
It can continue an idea and create a flow. It maintains the rhythm.
What is imagery?
It’s a mental picture of something.
What is metaphor?
It’s saying something is something else.
What is rhyme and what is it’s effect?
It’s the correspondence between the ends of words.
It gives a musical quality and a sense of completeness / perfection.
What is hyperbole and what is it’s effect?
It’s extreme exaggeration.
It emphasises a point.
What is irony?
It’s when something unexpected happens.
What is onomatopoeia and what is it’s effect?
It is a word that sounds like what it describes.
It makes something more expressive and makes it more realistic.
What is rhythm?
It is the “beat” that the words create.
What is a simile?
It’s comparing something to something else.
What is personification and what is it’s effect?
It’s giving something humanlike qualities.
It creates a closer connection to the object as it helps make it more vivid.
What is an oxymoron and what is it’s effect?
It’s two contradictory terms.
It creates emphasis and can add to characterisation.
What is slant rhyme and what is it’s effect?
It’s an imperfect rhyme.
It can create a sense of unease.
What is sibilance and what is it’s effect?
It’s repetition of the s sound.
It can create a sinister feeling with the snakelike quality.
