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Poetic Techniques
Flashcards to learn poetic techniques for analysis
Term | Definition |
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Subject | The subject of the poem on a surface level. The actual event, situation or experience being described |
Context | The setting, geographical location, time period and historical or other social issues that have influenced the past. |
Structure | The way a poem is organised in terms of stanzas, number of lines and interesting features |
Purpose/ Theme | Not simply the subject, but rather the underlying reason for the poem and the message being conveyed by the poet |
Mood/ Tone | The general feeling and mood that is created by the poet through words |
Rhyme | The repetition of the same or similar words, most often at the ends of lines of verse |
Rhythm | The measured beat, flow or tempo, signifying the basic beat or pattern of the poem |
Emotive Language | Is used to create powerful feelings in the reader. eg, rage, rage, against the dying light |
Alliteration | Is the use of words beginning with the same letter. eg. through thick and thin or slippery slithery snake |
Repetition | Is used to reinforce the language, message or theme |
Simile | When two things are compared using connective words such as like or as to link them. eg the jets are whining like hounds |
Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things, saying that one thing is the other. eg. the soldier is a lion in battle |
Personification | To give a non-human object with human qualities or characteristics. eg. the waves bursts in anger against the rocks |
Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like the noise they describe. eg. snap, swish, smack |
Imagery | The use of language to create images by describing how somethings looks, sounds, feels, smells or tastes |
Symbolism | Is when one thing is used to represent another to help make poems more intriguing as the word has double meaning. eg. a dark cloud could symbolise anger, a rose could symbolise love, a child could symbolise innocence |