poetic terminology

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Personification

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Describing a non-living thing as a living being

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Caesura

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A break in a line formed by a full stop

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Lineation

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A poems arrangement of line breaks

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Metaphor

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A word or phrase used to describe something as if it was something else

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Couplet

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A pair of consecutive lines of poetry that create a complete thought or idea

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Tercet

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A stanza with three lines

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Quatrain

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A stanza with four lines

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Anaphora

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Words are repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines

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Chremamorphism

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Giving the characteristics of an inanimate object to a human

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Diacope

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A word or phrase repeated with a small number of interviewing words

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Epizeuxis

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A figure of speech where the writer repeats a word or phrase in immediate succession

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Assonance

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The repitition of vowel sounds

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Zoomorphism

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Giving something, that is not an animal, animalistic characteristics

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Auditory imagery

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Poetic imagery that appeals to the reader’s sense of hearing or sound

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Enargia

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A rhetorucal term for a visually powerful description that vividly recreates something or someone in words.

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Hyperbole

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A word or phrase which is exaggerated for dramatic effect

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Gustatory imagery

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Imagery that describes taste

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Allegory

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A piece of writing that contains a hidden moral or political meaning

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Ode

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A lyric poem that addresses and praises a person, place, thing, or ideas that is not present.

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Dramatic monologue

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A poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character, usually written in first person

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Satire

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The use of humour, irony, sarcasm or ridicule to criticise something or someone

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Free verse

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Poetry which doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme.

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Conduplication

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The repetition of a word or phrase from a previous sentence or clause at the beginning of the next one.

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Monostitch

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A poem which consists of a single line

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Quintain

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A stanza with five lines

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Sestet

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A stanza with six lines

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Septet

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A stanza with seven lines

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Octet

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A stanza with eight lines

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Elegy

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A form of poetry that reflects upon death or loss

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Sonnet

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A 14 line love poem

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Blank verse

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poetry written with a precise meter which does not rhyme

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Iambic pentameter

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A rhythm structure that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five

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Ballad

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A simple song written as a narrative poem which tells a story through dialogue. This is most commonly written in a four line verse with a regular rhythm

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End-stopped lines

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A line of poetry with a pause or stop at the end

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Enjambment

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A running over of the grammatical structure from one line to another or between stanzas

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Refrain

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A recurring line or phrase, especially at the end of a verse

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An epic

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A lengthy, narrative work of poetry

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Haiku

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A Japanese poetic fork that consists of three lines, five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third

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Pastoral poetry

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Poetry which explores the relationship between humans and nature and romanticises the ideals of a simple country life.

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Limerick

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A poem of a 5 line stanza where the first, second and fifth lines have the same rhythm and rhyme.