Poetic techniques

Question 1

Tone

Answer 1

Attitude of the poet towards their subject

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

The atmosphere of a poem/feelings expressed

Question 3

Imagery

Answer 3

Language that paints a mental image

Question 4

Sensuous

Answer 4

Appealing to the 5 senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

A comparison between two things that used two things that uses the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

A comparison that does not use the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Giving human characteristics to something not human

Question 8

Alliteration

Answer 8

Repetition of consonant sounds in words next to each other

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Repetition of vowel sounds in a sentence or phrase

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

Exaggeration

Question 11

Image

Answer 11

A picture in words - the words evoke a certain picture in the reader’s mind

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Question 13

Ambiguous

Answer 13

Open to more than one interpretation

Question 14

Rhythm

Answer 14

How the words move or flow - can be quick and snappy or slow and languid

Question 15

Symbol

Answer 15

Something used to represent something abstract

Question 16

Onomatopoeia

Answer 16

Words whose sounds imitate what is being described

Question 17

Enjambment

Answer 17

When a line/stanza of poetry runs into the next line/stanza without pause

Question 18

Sibilance

Answer 18

Repetition of ‘s’ or ‘sh’ sounds