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Poetic techniques

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  • Alliteration
  • Allusion
  • Assonance
  • Colloquial language
  • Connotation
  • Descriptive language
  • Ellipsis
  • Enjambment
  • Hyperbole
  • Imagery
  • Internal rhyme
  • Irony
  • Jargon
    -Metaphor
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Personification
  • Repetition
  • Rhetorical question
  • Rhyme
  • Rhythm
  • Simile
  • Stanza
  • Symbolism
  • Tone
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Enjambment

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When a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse to maintain a sense of continuation

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Jargon

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The special language of a profession or group

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Paradox

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A statement that is self-contradicting

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Oxymoron

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When two words not normally associated are brough together eg. cold heat

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Simile

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emphasises the point being made by establishing a similarity between two things

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Tone

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the writer’s tone or voice or atmosphere or feeling that pervades the text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret or anger

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