Glossary of Poetic Terms

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Describe the technique: 'Allegory (allegorical)' An allegory or allegorical poem is a poem with two layers of meaning. (A surface meaning and a hidden meaning.)
Describe the technique: 'Alliteration (alliterative)' Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter(s), which make the same sound.
Describe the technique: 'Anthropomorphism (anthropomorphic)' Anthropomorphism is when an animal acts like a human or the opposite way round. (A human acts like an animal)
Describe the technique: 'Assonance' Assonance is a literary technique where vowels are used to create a sound.
Describe the technique: 'Autobiography (autobiographical)' An autobiography is a book based on the authors life.
Describe the technique: 'Biography (biographical)' A biography is a book based on someone's life that is NOT the author.
Describe the technique: 'Blank Verse' A blank verse is a ten beat verse that does NOT rhyme.
Describe the technique: 'Caesura' Caesura is a break in the rhythm of the poem, normally in the form of punctuation. ( . , ; : etc)
Describe the technique: 'Coinage (to coin)' Coinage is the making up of a new word. Most commonly by merging two words into one.
Describe the technique: 'Consonate' A consonate in a letter that is NOT a vowel.
Describe the technique: 'Couplet (rhyming couplet)' A couplet or rhyming couplet is a term used when two consecutive lines of a poem rhyme.
Describe the technique: 'Decasyllabic Rhythm' A decasyllabic rhythm describes a poem where there are ten beats/ syllables per line.
Describe the technique: 'Dramatic Monologue' A dramatic monologue is a poem where the narrative voice is talking in the first person.
Describe the technique: 'Elegy' Elegy is a poem written in somebodies memory. Most usually after their death.
Describe the technique: 'Enjambment' Enjambment is when one verse or line continue onto the next.
Describe the technique: 'Feminine Rhyme' Feminine rhyme is a set of rhyming words with two syllables.
Describe the technique: 'Free Verse' A free verse is a verse without a regular rhythm.
Describe the technique: 'Half-rhyme' Half-rhyme is when there is rhyming words every other line.
Describe the technique: 'Hyperbole' Hyperbole is over exaggeration.
Describe 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
Describe 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
Describe the technique: 'Internal Rhyme' Internal rhyme is two or more words within one line that rhyme.
Describe the technique: 'Juxtaposition' Juxtaposition is the term to describe two opposing things that are in a similar place.
Describe the technique: 'Lament' A Lament is a poem of grief or sorrow.
Describe the technique: 'Masculine Rhyme' Masculine rhyme is a set of rhyming words with one syllables.
Describe the technique: 'Metaphor' A metaphor is a comparison that doesn't use the word 'like' or 'as'.
Describe the technique: 'Meter' In poetry meter is the unit given to the pace of the poem.
Describe the technique: 'Monosyllabic' Monosyllabic is word consisting of one syllable.
Describe the technique: 'Quatrain' A quatrain is a four-line verse where all four lines rhyme.
Describe the technique: 'Simile' A simile is a comparison that uses either 'like' or 'as'.
Describe the technique: 'Sibilance' Sibilance is the repetition of the letter 's' that makes the same sound.
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