Poetry Techniques

Question 1

Word or Phrase Repetition

Answer 1

Emphasis ideas/feelings and focuses attention

Question 2

Used to emphasise ideas or feelings and to draw close attention to the writing

Answer 2

Word or Phrase Repition

Question 3

Alliteration

Answer 3

Deliberately repeats consonants to gain attention or suggest mood of poem

Question 4

Deliberate repetition of consonants, and used to gain attention or suggest mood or tune of the poem.

Answer 4

Alliteration

Question 5

Realistically revising recent reports risks ruining resplendent writing ?

Answer 5

Alliteration

Question 6

Assonance

Answer 6

Deliberately repeats similar/identical vowels in series of words; creates effect of atmosphere

Question 7

Deliberate repetition of similar or identical vowels in a series of words; this creates an effect of atmosphere.

Answer 7

Assonance

Question 8

Onomatopoeia

Answer 8

Sound resembles manner they are spelled

Question 9

Words whose sound resembles the manner in which they are spelled

Answer 9

Onomatopoeia

Question 10

hiss, drip, boom ?

Answer 10

Onomatopoiea

Question 11

Couplet

Answer 11

pair of rhyming lines

Question 12

A pair of rhyming lines

Answer 12

Couplet

Question 13

The which if you with patient ears attend,

what here shall miss, out toil shall end

Answer 13

Couplet

Question 14

Apostrophe

Answer 14

Address to dead/absent/immortal person or abstract entity

Question 15

Address to a person who is dead, absent, immortal or an abstract entity

Answer 15

Apostrophe

Question 16

Paradox

Answer 16

Contradiction designed to shock reader

Question 17

A seeming contradiction designed to shock the reader

Answer 17

Paradox

Question 18

Oxymoron

Answer 18

Form of paradox; blends two contradictory terms to catch reader’s attention

Question 19

A form of paradox that blends two contradictory terms to catch the reader’s attention

Answer 19

Oxymoron

Question 20

Hyperbole

Answer 20

Deliberate exaggeration for dramatic/comedic effect

Question 21

Deliberate exaggeration for dramatic or comedic effect

Answer 21

Hyperbole

Question 22

Antithesis

Answer 22

Balance of contrasting statements to draw attention

Question 23

Balance of contrasting statements to give attention

Answer 23

Antithesis

Question 24

Imagery

Answer 24

Picture created in reader’s mind though rich and evocative words:

• visual imagery (sight)
• tactile imagery (touch)
• aural imagery (hearing)

Question 25

Picture created in readers mind through the use of rich and evocative words that target:

• visual (sight)
• tactile (touch)
• aural (hearing)

Answer 25

Imagery

Question 26

Metaphors

Answer 26

Special form of imagery: likens something to another thing through use of “is” or “are”

Question 27

Special form of imagery, writer speaks of something as though it were something else through the use of “is” or “are”

Answer 27

Metaphors

Question 28

Similes

Answer 28

Comparison between two things using “like” and “as” and is less strong than metaphors

Question 29

Imaginative comparison between two things using the words “like” and “as”; this is less strong than a metaphor

Answer 29

Simile

Question 30

Irony

Answer 30

Says one thing but clearly believes the opposite

Question 31

Says one thing but clearly believes the opposite of what has been said

Answer 31

Irony

Question 32

Tone

Answer 32

Emotional “feel” of piece of writing through use of words; gives impression of writer’s voice

Question 33

The emotional “feel” of piece of writing that gives the impression of the writer’s voice through the use of language

Answer 33

Tone