Poetic Techniques Assignment

Repetition of vowel sounds

A break or multiple breaks in a line of a poem

Attributing something that isn't human human characteristics

The use of words that evoke sounds

A list separated by connectives

A form of personification in which human characteristics are attributed to anything inhuman

A comparison that is made directly or indirectly

Poems about the transitory nature of life and the inevitability of death. These poems question the fate of the strong and virtuous.

A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole e.g. a set of wheels

A poets departure from the rules of grammar, syntax and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme, can also mean the manipulation of facts to suit the needs of a poem

As a figure of speech it is self contradictory

Made up literary words as in Lewis Carrols Jabberwocky

Extreme Exaggeration

In Latin "seize the day" the fleeting nature of life and the need to embrace its pleasures constitute a frequent theme of love poems.

Smooth sounding words

Repetition of the letter s

Where the lines of a poem do not end but run on

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

The repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of a successive lines of writing or speech

A list without connectives or conjunctions

An extended metaphor in which the characters, places and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning often an allegory's meaning is religious, moral or historical in nature

A certain or recurring image or action in a literary work that is shared by other works and may serve an overall theme

In Italian it means 'turn', it is the turn of thought or argument

A comparison made with 'like'

When the weather or seasons reflect the mood of a poem

A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect

Under exaggeration

Subtopic

Repetition of any group of verse elements e.g. ABBA rhyme scheme

Harsh or disconant word sounds