language techniques for unseen poetry Flashcards
autobiographical
describing something that happened in the poet’s life
blank verse
poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn’t rhyme
colloquial
sounding like everyday spoken language
consonance
repetition of a consonant sound
dialect
a variation of language spoken bypeople from a particular place/background
dramatic monologue
a form of poetry that uses assumed voice of a single speaker who is not the poet to address an implied audience. (My Last Duchess)
emotive
something that makes you feel a particular emotion
end-stopping
finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence.
euphemism
an indirect word/phrase used instead of something upsetting/offensive to conceal meaning.
first person
I, my,we,our
free verse
poetry that doesn’t rhyme and has no regular rhythm or line length
half-rhymes
words that have similar but not identical end sound
homonyms
words that sound the same but have different meanings (tissue)
internal rhyme
when 2/more words rhyme and at least 1 word isn’t at the end of a line
irony
when words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean also means that there is a difference between what people expect and what actually happens.
layout
the way a piece of poetry is visually presented to the reader, how the poem is broken up into different stanzas, whether lines create some sort of visual pattern.
form
what type of poem,a sonnet/ballad and its features like number of lines,rhyme and rhythm
metre
the arrangement of stressed and unstressed symbols to create rhythm in a line of poetry
monologue
one person speaking for a long period of time
oral poetry
poetry is intended to be spoken aloud, rather than read
volta
turning point in a poem, when the arguments or tone changes dramatically.
