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Glossary of Poetic Terms
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- 1Describe the technique: 'Allegory (allegorical)'An allegory or allegorical poem is a poem with two layers of meaning.
(A surface meaning and a hidden meaning.) - 2Describe the technique: 'Alliteration (alliterative)'Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter(s), which make the same sound.
- 3Describe the technique: 'Anthropomorphism (anthropomorphic)'Anthropomorphism is when an animal acts like a human or the opposite way round. (A human acts like an animal)
- 4Describe the technique: 'Assonance'Assonance is a literary technique where vowels are used to create a sound.
- 5Describe the technique: 'Autobiography (autobiographical)'An autobiography is a book based on the authors life.
- 6Describe the technique: 'Biography (biographical)'A biography is a book based on someone's life that is NOT the author.
- 7Describe the technique: 'Blank Verse'A blank verse is a ten beat verse that does NOT rhyme.
- 8Describe the technique: 'Caesura'Caesura is a break in the rhythm of the poem, normally in the form of punctuation. ( . , ; : etc)
- 9Describe the technique: 'Coinage (to coin)'Coinage is the making up of a new word. Most commonly by merging two words into one.
- 10Describe the technique: 'Consonate'A consonate in a letter that is NOT a vowel.
- 11Describe the technique: 'Couplet (rhyming couplet)'A couplet or rhyming couplet is a term used when two consecutive lines of a poem rhyme.
- 12Describe the technique: 'Decasyllabic Rhythm'A decasyllabic rhythm describes a poem where there are ten beats/ syllables per line.
- 13Describe the technique: 'Dramatic Monologue'A dramatic monologue is a poem where the narrative voice is talking in the first person.
- 14Describe the technique: 'Elegy'Elegy is a poem written in somebodies memory. Most usually after their death.
- 15Describe the technique: 'Enjambment'Enjambment is when one verse or line continue onto the next.
- 16Describe the technique: 'Feminine Rhyme'Feminine rhyme is a set of rhyming words with two syllables.
- 17Describe the technique: 'Free Verse'A free verse is a verse without a regular rhythm.
- 18Describe the technique: 'Half-rhyme'Half-rhyme is when there is rhyming words every other line.
- 19Describe the technique: 'Hyperbole'Hyperbole is over exaggeration.
- 20Describe the technique: 'Iambic Pentameter'Iambic pentameter is a line with ten beats/ syllables. The beats/ syllables are split into 5 pairs of one short (stressed) beat/ syllable and one long (unstressed) beat/ syllable
- 21Describe the technique: 'Imagery (visual, aural, olfactory, sensory & tactile)'Imagery makes a picture in the readers mind in 5 different ways:
> visual - sight
> aural - sound
> olfactory - smell
> sensory - taste
> tactile - touch - 22Describe the technique: 'Internal Rhyme'Internal rhyme is two or more words within one line that rhyme.
- 23Describe the technique: 'Juxtaposition'Juxtaposition is the term to describe two opposing things that are in a similar place.
- 24Describe the technique: 'Lament'A Lament is a poem of grief or sorrow.
- 25Describe the technique: 'Masculine Rhyme'Masculine rhyme is a set of rhyming words with one syllables.
- 26Describe the technique: 'Metaphor'A metaphor is a comparison that doesn't use the word 'like' or 'as'.
- 27Describe the technique: 'Meter'In poetry meter is the unit given to the pace of the poem.
- 28Describe the technique: 'Monosyllabic'Monosyllabic is word consisting of one syllable.
- 29Describe the technique: 'Quatrain'A quatrain is a four-line verse where all four lines rhyme.
- 30Describe the technique: 'Simile'A simile is a comparison that uses either 'like' or 'as'.
- 31Describe the technique: 'Sibilance'Sibilance is the repetition of the letter 's' that makes the same sound.
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