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LITERARY TECHNIQUES
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LITERARY TECHNIQUES
PHONOLOGY
ASSONANCE: repetition of vowel sounds (usually in the middle of the word) e.g. 'men sell the wedding bells.'
SIBILANCE: alliteration of the sound 'sss' / 'shh'
ALLITERATION
Dental alliteration: D + T
Fricative alliteration: F + V
Plosive alliteration: P + B
Gutteral alliteration: G + C + K
Uvalal: L
ONOMATOPOEIA: the the formation of a word by imitation of a sound made.
Can be related to water e.g. bloop, splash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, drip, drizzle
Can be related to voice e.g. giggle, grunt, gurgle, mumble, murmur, bawl, belch, chatter, blurt
Can be related to collisions e.g. bam, bang, clash, clang, clank, clap, click, clink, ding, dang, dong, screech, slap, thud, thump
Can be related to air e.g. woosh, fisst, flutter, gasp, swish, swoosh, wiff, whoosh, whizz, whip, whisper
Can be related to an animal e.g. auf, baa, bark, bray, buzz, chirp, cluck, cuckoo, purr, quack, ribbit, oink
REPETITION: repeating a word for emphasis
MONOSYLLABIC: only one syllable
POLYSYLLABIC: more than one syllable
SPECIFICALLY FOR POETRY
RHYME SCHEME: a pattern of rhyme within a stanza or the whole poem e.g. ABABABAB - rhyming couplets
Full rhyme: sounds like a complete rhyme e.g. same, game, name
Half rhyme: words that almost rhyme e.g. big, beg, bag
Sight rhyme: looks like it is supposed to rhyme but it doesn't. e.g. one, gone, tone
STRUCTURE
End-stopped line: punctuation mark at the end of the line
Caesura: a heavy, significant pause in the middle of a line (rather than the end) e.g. fullstop, comma, hyphen
Enjambment: one line runs into the next line with no punctuation
NUMBER OF LINES IN A STANZA
COUPLET: 2 lines
TERCET: 3 lines
QUATRAIN: 4 lines
QUINTET: 5 lines
SESTET: 6 lines
SEPTET: 7 lines
OCTAVE: 8 lines
RHYTHM: the pattern of stresses in a line of a verse (metrical foot)
METRE: the type of rhythm
TROCHAIC: 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable
IAMBIC: 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable
ANAPAESTIC: 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed syllable
DACTYLIC: 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables
FEET: how many times is this repeated in a line?
MONOMETER: only once
DIMETER: x2
TRIMETER: x3
TETRAMETER: x4
PENTAMETER: x5
HEXAMETER: x6
IMAGERY
METAPHOR: a comparison between something but doesn't use 'like' or 'as'
SIMILE: a comparison using 'like' or 'as'
PERSONIFICATION: giving an object a human quality
OXYMORON: placing 2 contradictory words right next to each other e.g. 'white black'
JUXTAPOSITION: contrasting of dissimilar concepts/ideas, can be as far as 2 paragraphs apart.
ANALOGY: compares 2 different things that have similar characteristics.
ANTITHESIS: contrast of words within parallel phrases e.g. 'Many are called but few are chosen.'
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