Poetry Techniques Flashcards
Alliteration
The first letter of a word is repeated in words that follow; cold, crisp, crust of clean, clear ice.
Association
The same vowel sound repeated but the consonants are different; he passed her a sharp, dark glance, shot a cool, foolish look across the room
Colloquial
Language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; ‘chill’, ‘out of this world’, ‘take a rain check’.
Dialect
The version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area, such as Scots.
Dialogue
Conversation between two people; sometimes an imagined conversation between the narrator and the reader. It can also be found in the conversational style of a poem.
Enjament
A device used in petty where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse. This technique is often used a sense of continuation form one stanza to another.
Hyperbole
Exaggeration something for literary purposes which is not meant to be taken literally; we forged on the banquet of beans on toast
Imagery
Similes, metaphors and. Personification; they all compare some thing ‘real’ with something ‘imagined’.
Irony
The humorous or sarcastic use of ideas, implying the opposite of what they mean
Metaphor
A word or phrase used to imply figurative, not literal or ‘actual’, resemblance; he flew into the room
Monologue
An uninterrupted monologue can show a characters importance or state of mind.
Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the nose it is describing ‘splash’, ‘bang’ ‘pop’, ‘hiss’
Oxymoron
Where two words normally not associated are. Brought together: ‘cold heat’ ‘bitter sweet’
Pathos
Language that evoked feeling of pity or sorrow
Personification
Attributing a human quality to a thing or idea: the moon calls me to hear darkness world.
Repetition
The repetition of a word or phrase to achieve a particular effect.
Rhyme
The way that words sound the Sam at the end of lines in poetry. Poems often have fixed rhyme-scheme ( for example, sonnets have 14 lines with fixed rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG). Try to what contribution the rhyme-scheme is making to the text as a whole.
Why do you think the poet has chosen it?
Does it add control or imitate the ideas of in the poem?
Rhythm
A reparative beat or meter within a poem.
Simile
A phrase which establishes similarity between two things to emphasizes the point behind made. This usually involves the rods ‘like’ or ‘as’; ‘he is as quick as an arrow inflight’, ‘as white as snow’, ‘like a burning star’.
Symbolism
Often objects and colors, sounds and places work as symbols. They can some time give a good insight into the themed.
Tone
The writer’s tone or voice or atmosphere or feeling that pervades that text, such as sadness, gloom, celebration, joy, anxiety, dissatisfaction, regret or anger.
