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Poetry Devices
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- 1AllegoryAn extended metaphor, usually used to explain some thing abstract using concrete images.
- 2Alliterationany letter the same
- 3Allusionrefer to another text
- 4anapesttwo unstressed syllables followed with stressed syllable
- 5anthropomorphismPortrayal of animals or objects as if they were human
- 6apologypoem which argues in a favour of something
- 7apostropherhetroical device of addressing a speech to an inanimate object or to an animal. (or addressing a reader directly)
- 8assonancesharing vowel sounds but not consonance sounds
- 9balladnarrative poem, simple form and whit a straightforward content
- 10bathosanticlimax normally for comic effect
- 11binary oppositiona pair of terms which are opposites; normally part of a structural analysis
- 12blank versewritten in iambic pentameter without regular rhymes
- 13body politicrenaissance metaphor comparing the country to a human body with the King at the head and the various different trades as different limbs and organs
- 14caesuraa pause or break in the rhythm of a line
- 15chiasmusa trope which repeats a phrase with the subject and object positions inverted
- 16collocationbeing in the same place - i.e. several assonance may be collected within the same line
- 17complaintmournful poem, usually about unrequited love, in which the narrator's emotions are to the fore
- 18conceita metaphor which has been extended to such a degree that the mapping of figure onto canon has been partly lost or confused
- 19consonancesharing of consonant sounds but not vowel sounds
- 20coupleta pair of lines which rhyme
- 21curtal sonnetan abbreviated sonnet form invented and used by GM Hopkins
- 22dactylmetrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
- 23dramatic Ironya character appears who is unaware of some important fact to which the audience is
- 24elegya poem about death which normally focuses on the death of an individual
- 25elisioncombination of two syllables into one by missing out one or more sounds
- 26enjambmentrunning of one sentence across two or more lines of poems in a jarring way
- 27epiclong with a serious subject, usually mythical or religious
- 28epigramshort and pithy prom, normally in heroic couplet
- 29epitaphshort designed for a gravestone
- 30euphemismuse more delicate word for a delicate subject
- 31euphuismDeliberately over the top poetic writing; often flowery obscure and or over complicated
- 32feminine endinga line which ends with an unstressed syllable
- 33figurethe part which is desiccative in a metaphor
- 34foregroundingthe use of formal or technical element to draw attention to something
- 35free verseverse written without a regular metrical structure or rhyme scheme
- 36foota metrical unit consisting of two or three syllables
- 37half rhymerhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa.
- 38heroic coupletsa pair of rhyming lines which stand on their own usually in iambic pentameter
- 39homophonyidentical sounds
- 40hyper metricalof a syllable, meaning it is additional to the metrical structure of the line
- 41iamba metric foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- 42innuendoa trope which uses something innocuous to refer to something much more serious and usually negative
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