Poetry Flashcards

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Similie

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

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Metaphor

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

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Caesura

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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!

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Enjambment

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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.

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Tone and tonal shift

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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.

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Iambic pentameter

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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.

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Personification

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

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Alliteration

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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.

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Rhyme scheme

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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.

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Rhythm

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

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Repetition

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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.

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Onomatepia

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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.

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Slang

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

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colloquial language

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

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nonsensical language

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

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Hyperbole

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A hyperbole is an exaggeration of something or someone.