Poetic terms

Question 1

what is the effect of using alliteration?

Answer 1

Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.

Question 2

Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.

Answer 2

alliteration

Question 3

what is the effect of using connotations?

Answer 3

Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.

Question 4

Used to draw attention to a particular sound, intensifying meaning and binding words in sentences together.

Answer 4

Connotations

Question 5

what is the effect of using a pun?

Answer 5

Intended to have a humorous or rhetorical effect.

Question 6

Intended to have a humorous or rhetorical effect.

Answer 6

Pun

Question 7

what is the effect of using enjambment? (when the sentence, rhyme, or idea continues onto the next line of the poem)

Answer 7

Can create a sense of flow, perhaps reflecting on the speaker’s outpouring of emotion.

Question 8

Can create a sense of flow, perhaps reflecting on the speaker’s outpouring of emotion.

Answer 8

Enjambment (when the sentence, rhyme, or idea continues onto the next line of the poem)

Question 9

what is the effect of using a caesura? *in exam!!!

Answer 9

Creates a pause, allowing readers to consider the words around the pause in depth.

Question 10

Creates a pause, allowing readers to consider the words around the pause in depth. *in exam!!!

Answer 10

Caesura *in exam!!!

Question 11

what is the effect of using imagery?

Answer 11

To help readers to visualise and to highlight certain ideas or themes.

Question 12

To help readers to visualise and to highlight certain ideas or themes.

Answer 12

Imagery

Question 13

what is the effect of using assonance? (The repetition of similar or identical vowels throughout a sentence. E.g. the owl hooted through the wooded trees. You can see that the ‘oo’ sound is repeated.)

Answer 13

Can create a sense of rhythm and help to make a line more memorable. It can also slow the line down.

Question 14

Can create a sense of rhythm and help to make a line more memorable. It can also slow the line down.

Answer 14

Assonance (The repetition of similar or identical vowels throughout a sentence. E.g. the owl hooted through the wooded trees. You can see that the ‘oo’ sound is repeated.)

Question 15

what is the effect of using juxtaposition?

Answer 15

To highlight comparison or contrast.

Question 16

To highlight comparison or contrast.

Answer 16

Juxtaposition

Question 17

what is the effect of using a metaphor? (E.g. ‘Her eyes were sapphires’)

Answer 17

Creates a memorable image and creates connections to different ideas.

Question 18

Creates a memorable image and creates connections to different ideas.

Answer 18

Metaphor (E.g. ‘Her eyes were sapphires’)

Question 19

what is the effect of the tone of a poem?

Answer 19

This controls your (the reader’s) emotional response to the poem.

Question 20

This controls your (the reader’s) emotional response to the poem.

Answer 20

Tone

Question 21

what is the effect of using allusion? (A word or phrase that suggests something else, normally a reference to something well known, or familiar. E.g. In Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ she makes a reference to Muhammad Ali’s famous ‘fly like a butterfly’)

Answer 21

Can make a comment about something by comparing it to another well-known idea.

Question 22

Can make a comment about something by comparing it to another well-known idea.

Answer 22

Allusion (E.g. In Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ she makes a reference to Muhammad Ali’s famous ‘fly like a butterfly’ Can make a comment about something by comparing it to another well-known idea.)

Question 23

what is the effect of using personification?

Answer 23

Adds energy and an element of relatability to something that would otherwise be lifeless.

Question 24

Adds energy and an element of relatability to something that would otherwise be lifeless.

Answer 24

Personification

Question 25

what is the effect of repetition?

Answer 25

Normally for emphasis. (E.g. this emphasises the idea that… / the theme of… / etc.)

Question 26

Normally for emphasis. (E.g. this emphasizes the idea that… / the theme of… / etc.)

Answer 26

Repetition

Question 27

what is the effect of using stanzas?

Answer 27

To organise ideas in the poem. (i.e. can separate different thoughts/feelings/emotions of the speaker)

Question 28

To organise ideas in the poem. (i.e. can separate different thoughts/feelings/emotions of the speaker)

Answer 28

Stanzas

Question 29

what is the effect of free verse? (An open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter ,patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.)

Answer 29

It can sometimes mimic the sound of natural speech.

Question 30

It does not use consistent meter It can sometimes mimic the sound of natural speech.

Answer 30

Free verse (An open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter, patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.)

Question 31

what is the effect of using a simile?

Answer 31

Creates a memorable image and creates connections to different ideas.

Question 32

Creates a memorable image and creates connections to different ideas.

Answer 32

Simile