Poetry techniques glossary

Question 1

extended metaphor - tells a story of a deeper meaning / message

Answer 1

• allegory

Question 2

repetition of starting letter

Answer 2

alliteration

Question 3

a reference to a person place or time

Answer 3

allusion

Question 4

the opposite to something / counter proposition

Answer 4

antithesis

Question 5

repeated vowel sounds in order to create an internal rhyme

Answer 5

assonance

Question 6

narrative poem

Answer 6

ballad

Question 7

pause in the middle of the line using punctuation

Answer 7

caesural pause

Question 8

non-formal language

Answer 8

colloquial

Question 9

two consecutive lines of rhyme

Answer 9

rhyming couplet

Question 10

writers choice of words

Answer 10

diction

Question 11

lit that is intended to teach

Answer 11

didactic

Question 12

definite stop at a line

Answer 12

End-stopped line

Question 13

end of a line has no punctuation / no real end

Answer 13

enjambment

Question 14

language not to be taken literally

Answer 14

figurative language

Question 15

figures of speech

Answer 15

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• onomatopoeia

Question 16

rhyming words within a line

Answer 16

internal rhyme

Question 17

contrasting images

Answer 17

juxtaposition

Question 18

rhythmic structure

Answer 18

meter

Question 19

two opposing ideas that are related to one another

Answer 19

oxymoron

Question 20

invokes empathy

Answer 20

pathos

Question 21

pace and movement

Answer 21

rhythm

Question 22

14 lines

Answer 22

sonnet

Question 23

verse name

Answer 23

stanza