Poetry

Question 1

Similie

Answer 1

Comparing to things together using either the word ‘like’ or ‘as’.

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

Comparing to things together without using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’ e.g: his muscles are tough boulders.

Question 3

Caesura

Answer 3

A stop or a a pause in a metrical line, marked by punctuation or a grammatical boundary, such as a phrase or clause. This is an example of caesura being used: are you nobody too? Then there is a pair of us // - don’t tell! They’d banish // - you know!

Question 4

Enjambment

Answer 4

Enjambment is when in a poem there is a description of something powerful ( usually not all the time ) that can’t be controlled and it is shown by not adding comas at the end of each line in a stanza showing that it is uncontrollable and breaking through the commas.

Question 5

Tone and tonal shift

Answer 5

Tones and tonal shifts are what makes the story exciting, funny, or sad, which can change during a course of events that happens in the story.

Question 6

Iambic pentameter

Answer 6

Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry. The term describes the rythm or meter, established by the words in that line.

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Personification is when you give an object which isn’t alive or inanimate, human charecteristics such as: the tree waved.

Question 8

Alliteration

Answer 8

Alletiteration is when you use two words that start with the same letter ( usually an andjective and a noun) e.g: slimy snail or crunchy, creamy cake.

Question 9

Rhyme scheme

Answer 9

A rhyme scheme is the type of order or pattern your poem is in such as:
He fell of a tree,
He was only three,
He began to cry,
As he looked at the sky.
The ryhme scheme for that would be A,A,B,B.

Question 10

Rhythm

Answer 10

Rhythm is a pattern, for example in rhyming the words that rhyme ( for example: A,A,B,B ) would be the rhythm

Question 11

Repetition

Answer 11

Repetition is an effect that repeats over and over again for example: he he climbed up and up and up and up so high he could reach the stars.

Question 12

Onomatepia

Answer 12

Onomatepia is a word that sounds like what it means, for example: pop sounds like the noise it makes when something pops, or sizzle sounds like the noise it makes when something sizzles.

Question 13

Slang

Answer 13

Slang is the improper for of English, such as the standard English would be old, but the slang English would be ol’.

Question 14

colloquial language

Answer 14

colloquial language is the casual way you speak to a friend or close relative.

Question 15

nonsensical language

Answer 15

A sentence that barely makes sense for example a baby babbling.

Question 16

Hyperbole

Answer 16

A hyperbole is an exaggeration of something or someone.