Poetry Knowledge Organiser

Question 1

What is Auto-biographical

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A poem about the poet’s life and experiences

Question 2

What is a Ballad

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A form of poetry often set to music

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Blank verse

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Verse with no rhyme - usually ten syllables

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Dramatic monologue

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A character speaks to the reader

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Epic poem

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Tragic/heroic story poems

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First-person

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A poem written from the poet’s viewpoint or perspective using “I”

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Free Verse

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No regular rhyme/rhythm

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Lyrical

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Emotional and Beautiful

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Narrative

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A form of poetry that tells a story

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Ode

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Lyrical poem

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Rhetoric

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Persuasive

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Sonnet

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14-line poem to do with love

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Third Person

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A detached perspective (someone who is not directly involved with the action) explains everything that is happening

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Anaphora

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A device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring sentences

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of poetry

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Enjambment

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A thought sense, phrase, or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over the next line

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Epistrophe

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A device that can be defined as the ends of the clauses or sentences

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Juxtaposition

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The act of placing 2 things side by side for comparison

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Quatrain

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A set of four lines

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Rhyme

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