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Mind Map by Katie Newton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Katie Newton
over 7 years ago
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Poetic devices
- Alegory
- The saying of one thing and
meaning another
- eg. Orwell's Animal Farm
- eg. Orwell's Animal Farm
- The saying of one thing and
meaning another
- Assonance
- Used to describe the repetition of vowel
sounds in neighbouring syllables
- eg. deep sea
- eg. deep sea
- Used to describe the repetition of vowel
sounds in neighbouring syllables
- Caesura
- A pause or breathing-place about the
middle of a metrical line, generally
indicated by a pause in the sense
- A pause or breathing-place about the
middle of a metrical line, generally
indicated by a pause in the sense
- Enjambement
- The effect achieved when the syntax of a
line of verse transgresses the limits set by
the metre at the end of the verse
- The effect achieved when the syntax of a
line of verse transgresses the limits set by
the metre at the end of the verse
- Iambic Pentameter
- an unrhymed line of five feet in which the
dominant accent usually falls on the second
syllable of each foot
- an unrhymed line of five feet in which the
dominant accent usually falls on the second
syllable of each foot
- Dramatic irony
- occurs when an audience of a play
know some crucial piece of
information that the characters
onstage do not know
- occurs when an audience of a play
know some crucial piece of
information that the characters
onstage do not know
- Lexical set
- words that are habitually used within a given
environment constitute a lexical set
- eg. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc.
- eg. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc.
- words that are habitually used within a given
environment constitute a lexical set
- Monorhyme
- A rhyme scheme in
which all lines rhyme
- A rhyme scheme in
which all lines rhyme
- Plosive
- A consonantal sound in the
formation of which the
passage of air is completely
blocked, such as 'p', 'b', 't'
- A consonantal sound in the
formation of which the
passage of air is completely
blocked, such as 'p', 'b', 't'
- Refrain
- A repeated line, phrase or group of
lines, which recurs at regular
intervals through a poem or song
- A repeated line, phrase or group of
lines, which recurs at regular
intervals through a poem or song
- Rhythmn
- A term designating the
pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables in
verse or prose
- A term designating the
pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables in
verse or prose
- Feminine Rhyme
- Occurs when two syllables are
rhymed ('mother | brother')
- Occurs when two syllables are
rhymed ('mother | brother')
- Half Rhyme
- occurs when the final consonants are the
same but the preceding vowels are not.
('love | have')
- occurs when the final consonants are the
same but the preceding vowels are not.
('love | have')
- Eye Rhyme
- occurs when two syllables
look the same but are
pronounced differently ('kind
| wind')
- occurs when two syllables
look the same but are
pronounced differently ('kind
| wind')
- Synecdoche
- The rhetorical figure whereby a part is
substituted for a whole ('a suit entered
the room'), or, a whole is substituted for
a part (as when a policeman is called
'the law' or a manager is called 'the
management'
- The rhetorical figure whereby a part is
substituted for a whole ('a suit entered
the room'), or, a whole is substituted for
a part (as when a policeman is called
'the law' or a manager is called 'the
management'
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