Question | Answer |
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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