Poetic Glossary mind map
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- Poetic Techniques
- Colloquial
- language that is used in speech with an informal meaning; 'chill', 'out of this world', 'take a rain check'.
- Dissonance
- a discordant combinations of sounds; the clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay.
- Pathos
- language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow
- Dialect
- the version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area, such as Scots.
- Allegory
- A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning
- Caesura
- A strong pause within a line of verse
- Dactyl
- A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones
- Quatrain
- A four-line stanza in a poem
- Tercet
- A three-line stanza,
- Ode
- long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form.
- Meter
- The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
- Free verse
- Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
- Hyperbole
- the deliberate use of exaggeration.
- Ambiguity
- here words/sentences have more than one meaning/ are open to numerous interpretations.
- Semantic field
- When a text (anything with words, whether it be spoken or written) has a topic or subject that a group of words relates to.
- Colloquial
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