Poetic Techniques

Question 1

What is alliteration?

Answer 1

Where words that are close together start with the same letter.

Question 2

What is ambiguity?

Answer 2

Where a word or a phrase has 2 or more possible interpretations.

Question 3

What is assonance?

Answer 3

Where words share the same vowel sound. “might fly are lives like paper kites”

Question 4

What is autobiographical?

Answer 4

Describing something that happened in the poets life.

Question 5

What is a blank verse?

Answer 5

Poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn’t rhyme.

Question 6

What is caesura?

Answer 6

A pause in a line of poetry.

Question 7

What is iambic pentametre?

Answer 7

Poetry with a meter of 10 syllables - five stressed and five unstressed.

Question 8

What is chronological?

Answer 8

When events are arranged in the order in which they happened.

Question 9

What is colloquial?

Answer 9

Sounding like everyday spoken language.

Question 10

What is consonance?

Answer 10

Repetition of consonant sound.

Question 11

What is dialect?

Answer 11

A variation of a language spoken by a people from a particular place or background. Checking out me history.

Question 12

What is dramatic monologue?

Answer 12

A form of poetry that uses the voice of a single speaker who is not the poet to address an audience. - My last duchess

Question 13

What is emotive?

Answer 13

Something that makes you feel a particular emotion.

Question 14

What is end-stopping?

Answer 14

Finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence.

Question 15

What is end-stopping the opposite of?

Answer 15

Enjambment.

Question 16

What is enjambment?

Answer 16

When a sentence or phrase runs over from one line or stanza to the next.

Question 17

What is euphemism?

Answer 17

An indirect word or phrase used instead of saying something upsetting or offensive.

Question 18

What is an example of euphemism in my last duchess?

Answer 18

Instead of saying my wife died, he says “all smiles stopped”

Question 19

What is form?

Answer 19

The type of poem, e.g. sonnet, ballad and it’s features, like number of lines, rhythm and rhyme.

Question 20

What is free verse?

Answer 20

Poetry that doesn’t rhyme and has no regular rhythm or line length.

Question 21

What is half-rhymes?

Answer 21

Words that have a similar but not identical end sound.

Question 22

What is homonyms?

Answer 22

Words that are spelt and sound the same but have different meanings.

Question 23

What is iambic tetrameter?

Answer 23

Has a meter of 8 syllables - four stressed, 4 unstressed.

Question 24

What is in media res?

Answer 24

When a narrative starts in the middle of the action.

Question 25

What poem uses in media res?

Answer 25

Bayonet Charge.

Question 26

What is internal rhyme?

Answer 26

When 2 or more words in the same line rhyme.

Question 27

What is irony?

Answer 27

When words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean.

Question 28

What poem uses internal rhyme?

Answer 28

War Photographer - “tears between the bath and the pre-lunch beers”

Question 29

What is lay-out?

Answer 29

The way a piece of poetry is visually presented to the reader - line length, stanza’s.

Question 30

What is juxtaposition?

Answer 30

When a poet puts, two ideas, events, characters or descriptions close to each other to encourage the reader to contrast them.