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Poetry techniques Flashcards

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Anaphora

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The repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of several lines/clauses to create rhythm and emphasis

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech when a part of something highlights the importance of one thing as a whole

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Assonance

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When words share the same vowel sounds but their consonants are different

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Autobiographical

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Describing something that occurred in the poet’s life

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Caesura

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A pause in poetry

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Consonance

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Repetition of a consonant sound in nearby words

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Dialect

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A variation of a language spoken by oeople in a particular place/backround

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End-stopping

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Finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence

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Euphemism

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Indirect word/phrase instead of something offensive

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Free verse

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Poetry that doesn’t rhyme,with no regular rhythm or line length

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Homonyms

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Words spelt and pronounced the same, but with different meanings

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Iambic pentameter

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Poetry with a metre of ten syllables

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Iambic tetrameter

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Poetry with a meter of eight syllables

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Dactylic metre

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Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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In medias res

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When a narrative starts in the middle of the action

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Layout

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How a piece of poetry is visually presented to the reader e.g. line length, which lines create pattern, stanzas a poem breaks up into

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Oral poetry

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Poetry intended to be spoken aloud, rather than read

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Petrarchan sonnet

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A form of sonnet where the first eight lines have a regular ABBA rhyme scheme and introduce a problem, with the final six lines having a different rhyme scheme to solve a problem

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Phonetic spelling

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Words spelt as they sound rather than with their usual spelling e.g “dem” instead of “them”

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Plosive

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A short burst of sound when you say a word containing the letters b, d, g, k, p or t

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Rhetoric

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Persuasive language used by the port

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words in a sentence/phrase to make sense

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Volta

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A turning point in a poem

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