poetic terms brainscape Flashcards
Simile
A comparison using ‘like’, ‘as… as’ or ‘than’
Anaphora
Where the start of a sentence or clause is repeated.e.g. I will listen in lessons.I will know what I’m doing.I will feel better about myself as a result.
Hyperbole
Exaggeration / over statement.
Metaphor
A comparison where you say one thing is or was something else.
Stanza
The term we use for paragraphs in poems.
Sonnet
A type of poem that people used to write(famous people like shakespeare). It has 14 lines, is in iambic pentameter, has a volta (turning point) usually around line 9.
Ballad
A poem that tells a story. It’s stanzas are usually made up of four lines. 4 line stanzas are called quatrains.
Free verse
Unstructured poem. It doesn’t have a clear rhyme scheme or meter.
Meter
This is what we call rhythm when we are talking about poems.
Rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhymes in a poem. This is to do with the end of each line and which line it rhymes with.
Alliteration
When subsequent words (words in a row) start with the same letter or sound.
Epistrophe
The end of the sentence is repeated in subsequent (following) sentences.
Direct address
The persona (voice that the poet is using) speaks to the reader. Look out or the words ‘you’ and ‘your’.
Juxtaposition
Placing two ideas, things, or words next to each other to show how different they are.
Semantic field
Word family:lots of words connected by their meaning.e.g. lots of words used that relate to water, or lots of words relating to plants.
