Poetry Skills Flashcards
What is tone?
This describes the writers voice.
Whether its humorous, serious, neutral or sarcastic.
Tone may change as writing develops.
What is image?
The way in which the writer uses language to create a more powerful picture in our minds.
Most of this is done by comparing one thing with another.
What is imagery?
The words we use for a series of images.
Image we see in our minds.
Through simile, metaphor and personification.
What is a simile?
One thing is compared with another using the linking word as or like.
What is a metaphor?
One thing is compared with another but without use of the linking word as or like.
What is personification?
An abstract concept is presented as if it was a person or animal.
What are senses?
One way the writer brings the scene alive is by making readers use their senses.
Imagining sights, sounds and smells.
What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like the sounds they describe crash, buzz, crack.
Make descriptions seem more vivid.
What is alliteration?
Series of words that begin with the same consonant sound.
Helps writers create patterns in their language.
What is rhythm?
The patterns or sounds created by a poet’s choice and arrangement of words.
What are adverbs?
Tell us more about the verb.
They show where, how something happens.
Most end in ly - quickly, noisily.
What are adjectives?
Words which add extra information and meaning to nouns.
Misty mountains, pale faces and deep dungeons.
What is an archaic?
Word no longer in ordinary use.
What is assonance?
The same or similar sound in words near each other.
What is hyperbole?
Exaggeration.
