Poetic Terminology

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Volta

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Turning point

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Stanza

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A verse in poetry

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Anaphora

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Starting consecutive lines with the same word/phrase

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Epistrophe

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Ending consecutive lines with the same word/phrase

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Iambic pentameter

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5 sets of unstressed then stressed syllables (ux)

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End stopped lines

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Ending a line or stanza with a piece of punctuation

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Enjambment

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Not ending a line or stanza with punctuation; a continuation of

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Colloquial language

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Chatty language/slang

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Tautology

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Repeating something in a different way

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Sibilance

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Repetition of s sounds

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Dactylic rhythm

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Sets of 2 stressed than an unstressed syllable (xxu)

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Refrain

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Repeating lines in a poem, like a chorus

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Simile

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Indirect comparison using like or as

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Metaphor

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Direct comparison

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Alliteration

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Words that begin with the same sound or letter close together

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Allusion

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A reference to something else

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Assonance

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The repetition of the same or similar vowels within words, phrases or sentences

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Atmosphere

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Overall mood of a story or poem

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Caesura

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A break or pause in the middle of a line of verse

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Consonance

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Repetition of the same consonant sounds close together

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Onomatopoeia

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Words whose pronunciations imitate the sounds they describe

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

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Pararhyme

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Half rhyme in which the consonant sounds are the same but vowels are different

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Personification

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Giving non human objects human characteristics

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Plosive

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An abrupt sound made by closing the mouth then releasing a short burst of breath(b,p,t,d)

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Rhyme

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Words whose endings rhyme

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of a word at the end of one line and the start of the next ## Footnote Eg. But not, Not the six hundred

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Ballad

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A type of poem narrating a story, often meant to be spoken

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Semantic field

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A group of connected words

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Rhetorical question

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A question not expected to be answered