Poetry Techniques

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Mind Map on Poetry Techniques, created by Chloe allder on 22/03/2015.
Chloe allder
Mind Map by Chloe allder, updated more than 1 year ago
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Poetry Techniques
  1. Alliteration: Multiple words together starting with the same sound
    1. Assonance: Repetition of a vowel sound to achieve a particular effect
      1. Ballad: a song written as a narrative poem telling a story through monologue
        1. Rhyming couplet: words at the end of 2 lines together rhyming
          1. Diction: the choice of words and language
            1. Elegy: a slow thoughtful poem written for someone who died
              1. End-Stopped lines: where there is a stop or pause at the end of a line
                1. Enjambment: Lines that have no ending punctuation
                  1. Form: how the poem is structured
                    1. Free verse: written without verse structures and often un-rhyming
                      1. Hyperbole: a figure of speech used to exaggerate and emphasise
                        1. Imagery: words used to paint a picture in your mind
                          1. Metaphor: where one thing is said to be something else
                            1. Onomatopoeia: words used to imitate sounds
                              1. Personification: where an inanimate object is give human features
                                1. PUN: play on words
                                  1. Refrain: a recurring line or phrase particularly at the end of a stanza
                                    1. Repetition: where things are repeated
                                      1. Rhythm: movement of syllables
                                        1. Quatrain: 4 line stanza
                                          1. Simile: a comparison using like or as
                                            1. Sonnet: 14 line stanza using an iambic meter
                                              1. Stanza: group of lines to make a verse
                                                1. Symbol: use of something to represent something else
                                                  1. Theme: the subject of the poem
                                                    1. Tone: the feeling and mood
                                                      1. Triplet: 3 line stanza
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