GCSE Poetry Terminology Flashcards
Alliteration
Words that start with the same sound
Allusion
Reference to another text or idea
Anaphora
Repetition of a phrase at the start of a line or sentence
Ambiguous
When something is left deliberately unclear
Assonance
Words that share the same vowel sound
Caesura
A pause in a line of poetry
Enjambment
When a line has no punctuation at the end and breaks onto the next one
Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration used to emphasise a point
Monologue
Just one person speaking for an extended period of time
Refrain
Repetition of a single line in a poem
Poetic Persona
When someone takes on a voice in a poem
Oxymoron
Two words that seem to contradict each other
Rhyming Couplets
Two lines that rhyme next to each other
Prosaic
Dull or commonplace, unimaginary
Tone
Attitude of the writer towards the subject matter
Blank Verse
A poem written in iambic pentameter that does not rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Pattern made by the rhyme within each stanza or line of verse
Structure
The Organisation of a Poem into Sections
Elegy
A mournful and melancholy poem
Ode
A poem devoted to the praise of a person or object
Sonnet
14 Lines in an iambic pentameter rhythm
Anthropomorphism
When an animal is given human qualities
Asyndeton
When connectives are left out of a line of poetry creating a list like feel
Dialect
Specific words used by people from a certain area
