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Peotic Techniques
Flashcards to learn poetic techniques for analysis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| subject | The subject of the peom on a surface level. The actual event, situation or experience or experience being describe. |
| context | The setting, geographical location, time period and historical or other social issues that have influenced the poet |
| structure | The way a poem is organised in term of stanzas, number of lines and interesting feature |
| purpose/theme | Not simply the subject, but rather the underlying reason for poem and the message being conveyed by the poet |
| mood/tone | the general feeling/mood that is created by the poet through words. |
| rhyme | 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 e.g. rage, rage, against the dying light |
| alliteration | Is the use of words beginning with the same letter e.g.. through thick and thin or slippery snake |
| repetion | is used to rein force the language, message or theme |
| simile | when two things are compared using connective words such as like or as to link them e.g. the jets are whining like hounds |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things, saying that one things is the other. e.g. the soldier is a lion in battle |
| personification | to give a non human object human qualities or characterise e.g. the wave burst in anger against |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like noise they make |
| imagery | the use of language to create images by describing how looks, sounds, feels , small or |
| symbolism |
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Isaaking