Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Poetic Techniques
- Theme
- main topic or issue in the poem
- Rhythm
- beat of the poem
- Tone
- voice of the poet/speaker
- can be changed for different meanings
- Metaphor
- Image created without using 'like', 'as' or 'than'
- Simile
- Special kind of image
- made by comparing two things of different nature using the words 'like', 'as' or 'than'
- Images
- word-pictures created with our imagination
- Personification
- when an inanimate object is given human characteristics
- Alliteration
- Lots of words starting with the same letter
- Assonance
- when a vowel sound is repeated in a line
- words that rhyme often have assonance
- Onomatopoeia
- when a word imitates the sound it is describing
- Mood
- Main emotion of the poem
- Atmosphere
- linked to the setting