Structural and Language devices glossary, also Poetry devices

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Alliteration
Where words that are close together start with the same sound, e.g. "wrings with wrong".
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Ambiguity
Where a word or phrase has two or more possible interpretations.
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Assonance
When words share the same vowel sound but their consonants are different, e.g. "In this deep joy to see and hear thee.".
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Caesura
A pause in a line of poetry. E.g. the full stop in "Over the drifted stream. My father spins".
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Colloquial
Sounding like everyday spoken language, e.g. "with your pals".
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Consonance
Repetition of a consonant sound in nearby words. e.g. "And fit the bright steel pointed sock"
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Direct address
When the narrator of the poem speaks directly to another character, e.g. "long shall I rue thee".
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Dramatic Monologue
A form of poetry that uses the assumed voice of a single speaker who is not the poet to address an implied audience, e.g. "Porphyria's Lover"
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Ellipsis
A series of dots which indicate a pause. It can add to a poem's or a stories meaning.
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Emotive
Something that makes you feel a particular emotion.
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Empathy
When someone understands what someone else is experiencing and how they feel about it.
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Enjambment
When a sentence or phrase runs over from one line or stanza to the next.
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Form
The type of poem, e.g. a sonnet or a ballad, and its features, like number of lines, rhyme and rhythm.
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Free verse
Poetry that doesn't rhyme and has no regular rhythm or line length.
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Half-rhymes
Words that have a similar, but not identical, end sound. E.g. "plough" and "follow"
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Hyperbole
The use of exaggeration to emphasise a point.
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Iambic pentameter
Poetry with a metre of ten syllables, five of them stressed, and five unstressed. The stress falls on every second syllable, e.g. "I think of thee!- my thoughts do twine and bud".
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Imagery
Language that creates a picture in your mind. It includes metaphors, similes and personification.
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Internal rhyme
When two or more words in the same line rhyme, e.g. "The soft young down of her; the brown".
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Juxtaposition
When a poet puts two ideas, events, characters or descriptions closer to each other to encourage the reader to contrast them. E.g. Dooley juxtaposes different lifestyles in "Letters From Yorkshire"
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Metaphor
A way of describing something by saying that it is something else, e.g. "icebergs of white feather".
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Extended Metaphor
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is carried on, e.g. the ship metaphor in "follower".
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Monologue
One person speaking alone for a long period of time.
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Mood
The feel or atmosphere of a poem, e.g. humorous, peaceful, fearful.
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Narrative
Writing that tells a story. e.g. Winter Swans.
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Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the thing it's describing, e.g. "clicking" and "pluck" in Follower.
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Oxymoron
A phrase which appears to contradict itself e.g. "warm ice"
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Pathetic Fallacy
Giving human emotions to objects or aspects of nature, in order to create a certain mood. E.g. in "Porphyrias Lover" the "sullen wind" creates a gloomy, threatening atmosphere.
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Personification
Describing a non-living thing as if it has human qualities and feelings, or behaves in a human way. e.g. "And the sunlight clasps the earth".
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Petrarchan Sonnet
A form of sonnet in which the first eight lines have a regular ABBA rhyme scheme and introduce a problem, whilst the final six lines have a different rhyme scheme and solve the problem.
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Phonetic spellings
When words are spelt as they sound rather than with their usual spelling.
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Plosive
A short burst of sound made when you say a word containing the letters b,d,g,k,p or t.
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Rhetorical question
A question that doesn't need an answer, but is asked to make or emphasise a point.
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Rhyme Scheme
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
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Sibilance
Repetition of "s" or "sh" sounds, e.g. "slow-stepping in the lake's shingle and sand"
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Simile
A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, usually by using the words "like" or "as", e.g. "Look round like children at her call".
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Sonnet
A form of poem with fourteen lines, that usually follows a clear rhyme scheme.
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Stanza
A group of lines in a poem.
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Structure
The order and arrangement of ideas and events in a poem, e.g. how it begins, develops and ends.
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Symbolism
When an object stands for something else. E.g. the vines in "Sonnet 29" symbolise the narrator's thoughts, and the swans in "Winter Swans" symbolise the couples relationships.
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Soliloquy
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by characters in a play.
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Volta
A turning point in a poem, when the argument or tone changes dramatically.
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Ambiguity

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Where a word or phrase has two or more possible interpretations.

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Assonance

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Caesura

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Colloquial

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