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Poetic Techniques Flashcards

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Rhythm

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Arrangement of words to form regular beat through pattern,

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Sibilance

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Hissing sound when there is reappeared ‘s’ sound

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Simile

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To compare one thing with another using ‘like’ or ‘as’

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Sonnet

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1 stanza (14-line poem)

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Stanza

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Group of lines forming unit in poem.

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Symbol

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Used to stand for/ represent something else

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Tone

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Authors attitude towards subject of work/ audience

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Zoomorphism

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Animal characteristics assigned to humans

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Monologue

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Extended speech by one person in literature drama

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Mood

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Feeling/ atmosphere of poem

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Onomatopoeia

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Word that sounds like what it means

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Oxymoron

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Phrase consisted of 2 words which are contradictory e,g bitter sweet

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Pathetic fallacy

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Personification where emotions are given to setting, weather etc

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Personification

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Metaphor attributing human feelings to an object

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Consonance

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Same consonant repeats with words. E.g creep and beep while you sleep

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Emotive language

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Language intended to create emotional response

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Enjambment

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When sentence runs over from line of verse to the nect

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Hyperbole

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Use of obvious exaggeration for rhetorical effect

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Metaphor

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Descriptive technique. Names person, thing, actions as something else.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words

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Anthropomorphism

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Attribution of human characteristics to animals/non human things. E,g the tiger rushed in, he hadn’t done his homework.

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Colons

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Used before list, quotation/answer

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Semi colons

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E,g her cape is yellow; his cape is green

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Dash

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Informal, used instead of semicolon/ colon,

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