Poetry: Form/ Language/ Structure

Learn the list of techniques given to you in lesson.

Find the definitions of any you are uncertain of and be prepared to re-call them in a memory test on Monday.

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Dramatic Monologue
A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events.
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Narrative
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
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Epic
A long poem, typically one derived from Ancient Oral Tradition, Narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.
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Blank Verse
It is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
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Free Verse
It is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
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Elegy
It is a poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead.
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Petrarchan Sonnet
It is a sonnet form not developed by Petrarch himself, but rather by a string of Renaissance poets.
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Shakespearean Sonnet
Shakespeare's Sonnets are poems that William Shakespeare wrote on a variety of themes.
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Quatrain
It is a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.
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Ballad
It is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
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Lyric
The words of a popular song.
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Limerick
A humorous five-line poem with a Rhyme Scheme AABBA.
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Haiku
It is a very short Japanese poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.
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Line
It is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided.
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Stanza
In poetry, a Stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other Stanzas by a blank line or indentation.
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Rhyme
It is correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
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Half Rhyme
It can be defined as a Rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.
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Rhythm
The Rhythm of a poem gives it its flow and beat, so rhythm is a very critical component of well-written poems.
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Enjambment
In poetry, Enjambment is incomplete syntax at the end of a line.
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Caesura
It is a break between words within a Metrical Foot.
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Turn
In poetry, Turn is a Rhetorical Shift or Dramatic Change in thought and/or emotion.
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Volta
In poetry, Volta is a Rhetorical Shift or Dramatic Change in thought and/or emotion.
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Font
It is a set of type of one particular face and size.
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Couplet
It is a pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length.
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Sestet
It is the last Six lines of a Sonnet.
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Octet
It is a piece of music written for Eight people.
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Simile
It is an expression comparing one thing with another, always including the words "Like" or "As".
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Metaphor (& extended)
It is an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object.
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Personification
It is the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not a human.
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Alliteration
It is the use of the same sound(s), especially consonants, at the beginning of several words that are close together.
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Assonance
It is the similarity in sound between Two Syllables that are close together, created by the same vowels but different consonants, or by the same consonants and different vowels.
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Consonance
It is a combination of sounds or musical notes that are pleasant when heard together.
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Sibilance
It is the fact of making a "S", "Sh", or "Ch" sound.
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Effective Verbs/ Adverbs
It is a word that describes or gives more information about a Verb, Adjective, Adverb, or Phrase.
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Onomatopoeia
It is the act of creating or using words that include sounds that are similar to the noises the words refer to.
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Metonymy
It is the act of referring to something using a word that describes one of its qualities or features.
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Chremamorphism
If Personification is the technique of giving inanimate (things not alive) human characteristics, Chremamorphism is giving characteristics of an object to a person.
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A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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Narrative

Card 3

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A long poem, typically one derived from Ancient Oral Tradition, Narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of a nation.

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Card 4

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It is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

Back

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Card 5

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It is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.

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