what poetic techniques can you use?

Question 1

language:

Answer 1

Language:
Metaphor – comparing one thing to another, saying it is that thing.
Simile – comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’ Personification – giving an inanimate object human characteristics/ qualities.
Imagery – language that makes us imagine a sight (visual), sound (aural), touch (tactile), smell, taste.
Tone – the mood or feeling created in a poem.
Pathetic Fallacy – linking emotions to the weather to create a mood within a text.
Irony – language that says one thing but implies the opposite e.g. sarcasm.
Colloquial Language – informal language; usually creates a conversational tone or authentic voice.
Onomatopoeia – language that sounds like its meaning.
Alliteration – words that are close together which start with the same letter or sound.
Sibilance – the repetition of s or sh sounds.
Assonance – the repetition of similar vowel sounds
Consonance – repetition of consonant sounds.
Plosives – short burst of sound: t, k, p, d, g, or b sounds.

Question 2

structure:

Answer 2

Structure:
Stanza – a group of lines in a poem.
Repetition – words or phrases used more than once.
Enjambment – a sentence or phrase that runs onto the next line.
Caesura – using punctuation to create pauses or stops in the middle of a line of poetry.
Contrast – opposite concepts/feelings in a poem. Juxtaposition – contrasting things placed side by side.
Anaphora – when the first word or more of a stanza is the same across different stanzas.
Epistrophe – when the final word of a line, sentence or stanza is the same across different stanzas.
Volta – a turning point in a poem.
Form:
Speaker – the narrator, or person in the poem.
Free verse – poetry that doesn’t rhyme.
Blank verse – poem in iambic pentameter, but with no rhyme.
Sonnet – poem of 14 lines with clear rhyme scheme.
Rhyming couplet – a pair of rhyming lines next to each other.
Meter – arrangement of stressed/unstressed syllables.
Monologue – one person speaking.