Poetic Terminology

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Form: Lyric

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A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings (typically in 1st person)

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Form: Ballad

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Poems that tell a story

Question 3

Form: Hymn

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A poem praising God or the divine

Usually has rhyming couplets etc so it sounds like a hymn

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Pastoral

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A work of literature portraying an idealised version of country life

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Trimeter

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A line of verse consisting of three metrical feet

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Tetrameter

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A line of verse consisting of four metrical feet

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Heptameter

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A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet

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Metrical foot

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A metrical foot consists of one stressed🤷‍♀️syllable and at least one unstressed 😎

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Iamb

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A unit of meter with two syllables, where the first is unstressed😎 and the second is stressed 🤷‍♀️

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Dactyl

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A three syllable metrical pattern in poetry in which a stressed syllable🤷‍♀️ is followed by and unstressed syllable😎

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Anapaestic

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A metrical foot in the line of a poem that contains three syllables, of which the first two syllables are short and unstressed 😎😎, followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed🤷‍♀️

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Trochee

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A two syllable metrical pattern in which a stressed syllable 🤷‍♀️ is followed by an unstressed syllable 😎

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Spondee

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A metrical foot that consists of two stressed syllables🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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Pyrrhic

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A metrical foot that consists of two unstressed syllables 😎😎

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Couplet

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A pair of successive line of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length

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Quatrain

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A stanza of four lines

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Alternate rhyme

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ABAB

Where alternating lines rhyme e.g in a quatrain, line one rhymed with line three and line two with four

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Internal rhyme

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Where the rhyme occurs within a single line of verse

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Sight rhyme

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A rhyme in which two words are spelt similarly but pronounced differently/ they look as though should rhyme but do not

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Symbol

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A mark, sign or word that signifies an idea

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Allusion

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Something that is said or written that is intended to make you think of a particular thing or person

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Graphology

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Physical characteristics and patterns of handwriting

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Intertextual reference

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The shaping of a texts meaning by another text

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Stanza

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A verse of poetry

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words ( meat and bean e.g)

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Consonance

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The recurrence of similar sounding consonants in close proximity

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Consonant

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A speech sound that is not a vowel and produced when breath is at least partially obstructed (by teeth)
You have to open and close your mouth to say consonants - Z, B, T, G

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Vowel

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Produced with an open tract/ breath flows out and is not blocked by teeth
A, E, I, O, U

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Caesura

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A pause near or in the middle of a line

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Enjambement

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza