Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Poetry Techniques
- Alliteration: Multiple words together starting with the same sound
- Assonance: Repetition of a vowel sound to achieve a particular effect
- Ballad: a song written as a narrative poem telling a story through monologue
- Rhyming couplet: words at the end of 2 lines together rhyming
- Diction: the choice of words and language
- Elegy: a slow thoughtful poem written for someone who died
- End-Stopped lines: where there is a stop or pause at the end of a line
- Enjambment: Lines that have no ending punctuation
- Form: how the poem is structured
- Free verse: written without verse structures and often un-rhyming
- Hyperbole: a figure of speech used to exaggerate and emphasise
- Imagery: words used to paint a picture in your mind
- Metaphor: where one thing is said to be something else
- Onomatopoeia: words used to imitate sounds
- Personification: where an inanimate object is give human features
- PUN: play on words
- Refrain: a recurring line or phrase particularly at the end of a stanza
- Repetition: where things are repeated
- Rhythm: movement of syllables
- Quatrain: 4 line stanza
- Simile: a comparison using like or as
- Sonnet: 14 line stanza using an iambic meter
- Stanza: group of lines to make a verse
- Symbol: use of something to represent something else
- Theme: the subject of the poem
- Tone: the feeling and mood
- Triplet: 3 line stanza