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Poetry techniques flashcards
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- 1How can caesura affect a poem?Can disrupt the rhythm: 'O! Carve not thy hours', (Vocative O)
Can slow the pace,
A lack of caesura can quicken the pace,
Can act as a method to pause and reflect. - 2What is quotidian language?Ordinary language
i.e. 'each in a separate bed' - the rooms of the lovers - ordinary. - 3What is this sentence an example of: 'I gave her food, shelter, water.'Asyndetic listing.
(when usual pronouns are missing) - 4What is an example of an Alexandrine?John Donne's 'The Anniversary':
final lines of each stanza are 12 syllables as opposed to 10. Donne uses it to show that his love knows no boundaries and does not answer to convention. - 5How can you identify an apostrophe?It's a poem or speech directed towards a person or personified thing. Exclamatory.
- 6What is the difference between a Petrarchan sonnet and a Shakespearean Sonnet?Shakespearean sonnet ends on a rhyming couplet.
Petrarchan sonnet rhyme: ABBABBA
Shakespearean sonnet rhyme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG - 7What effect can repetition have within a poem?Increases musicality and emotional appeal
- 8How can you identify a Petrarchan sonnet from a Shakespearean?Petrarchan is 14 lines with a rhyme scheme of ABBABBA
Shakespearean is also 14 lines but the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG - 9What are paradoxical lines?In Shakespearean sonnets, paradoxical lines are used at the end of the sonnet which contradicts the previous argument. Represents the contradictions that love breeds.
- 10What effect do monosyllabic lines have on a poem?Conveys intense emotion
- 11What is antithesis?Opposing words which create sharp and striking effects.
- 12What is the effect of internal rhyme?Emphasises the meanings of words along with having a unifying effect
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