Poetic Techniques Flashcards
1
Q
Metaphor
A
Stating that something is something else.
2
Q
Simile
A
Stating that something is like or as something else.
3
Q
Onomatopoeia
A
Writing words that sound like what is happening.
4
Q
Meter
A
The rhythm of the poem.
5
Q
Caesura
A
End stop in the middle of a line (?) (.).
6
Q
Personification
A
Giving an inanimate object human features.
7
Q
Sonnet
A
A 14 lined poem.
8
Q
Enjambement
A
A line continues to the next without punctuation.
9
Q
Assonance
A
Repeated sound in syllables and words.
10
Q
Rhyme
A
Endings of words sounding the same.
11
Q
Alliteration
A
Words beginning with the same letter.
