Poetry techniques Flashcards
I am a feather on the bright sky
I am the blue horse that runs in the plain
I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water
I am the shadow that follows a child
Anaphora
Repetition at the start of clauses/sentences
The Flea uses a flea as a symbol for physical relations
Conceit/Extended Metaphor
A metaphor that continues throughout mutliple lines/the whole poem
Ode to the Women on Long Island/Ode to a Grecian Urn
Apostrophe
Adressing something that isn’t present
“We need more hands on deck”
Metonymy/Synechdoche
A part used to refer to the whole
I went out
and lost my way
Enjambment
The sentence continues over the line
John and his driving licence expired last week
Zeugma
A verb with two objects/subjects with different meaning for each.
That is a very very very big balloon
Repetition (Epimone)
Something is repeated
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “This some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door”
Rhyme (and repetition - epinome and alliteration and consonance)
Silent sleepers
Alliteration (and consonance)
Successive words starting with the same letter
Hickory dickory dock
Consonance (and alliteration with the ‘d’s, and assonance with the “-ick” sound)
Repeated similar consonants in close proximity
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”
Assonance (and alliteration with the ‘w’s)
Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
Euphony (and personification, and repetition - antanaclasis, epimone, epizeuxis)
The pleasant sounds of the words makes it euphony
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
agape they heard me call.
Cacophony
Unpleasantly sounding sentence/phrases as a result of diction
