Poetic Techniques Year 9

Endowing objects or ideas with human traits or abilities.

First person, Third person, or Third person omniscient. The perspective the text is written in.

One of the divisions of a poem; a grouping of two or more lines.

Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or combination of senses to create an image:

The emotion you feel while you are reading.

Implicit comparison, by using a word normally used for one thing to compare.

The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.

A question which does not require a response, but is intended to make the audience think.

A small exaggeration or understatement:

Identical or similar ending sounds between two words or lines.

An appeal to the audience's emotions.

The repetition of vowel sounds in the words of a poem:

Repeating of words, phrases, lines, sounds or stanzas.

Opinion about the subject matter. Could be the poet's personal opinion or fictional persona's.

The omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader (usually..)

An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself.

When what it said (literal meaning) is different from the intended meaning:

Where the poet writes intimately about his or her personal experience:

From the French "to straddle". A run-on line of poetry where grammar carries over:

The repetition of initial consonant sounds, either consecutively or in the first words:

Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme:

Portrayal of life in all its immediately-given ways, good and bad:

A comparison of objects using 'like' or 'as', or 'than' or similar words.

A word whose sound seem to duplicate the sound they describe.

The way rhymes occur in a poem (e.g. First and third lines).

Attributing human emotion or responses to nature, inanimate objects, or animals.

To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast:

An audible pattern in verse established by the intervals between stressed syllables.

A likeness or similarity between things that are otherwise unlike:

Where two apparently opposing words are used for effect.

An extreme exaggeration:

The idea of a literary work abstract from its details; in the form of a generalization.

Unrhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter: