Allusion - Unacknowledged reference and quotations that authors assume their readers will recognise, Anaphora - Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work., Apostrophe - Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person.fffffff, Assonance - The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity., Ballad - A narrative poem composed of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming x-a-x-a. Often use refrains., Blank Verse - Unrhymed iambic pentameter., Dramatic Monologue - A type of poem, derived from the theater, in which a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader., Enjambment - A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line., Internal Rhyme - An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry., Octave - The first eight lines of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, unified by rhythm, rhyme, and topic., Paradox - A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true., Petrarchan Sonnet - A sonnet (14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter) that divides into an octave (8) and sestet (6). There is a "volta," or "turning" of the subject matter between the octave and sestet., Refrain - Repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad., Sestet - A six-line stanza or unit of poetry., Shakespearean Sonnet - A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg., Synaesthesia  - A rhetorical figure that describes one sensory impression in terms of a different sense, or one perception in terms of a totally different or even opposite feeling., Volta - he "turning" point of poem.,

A Level Poetic Techniques

More

Switch template

Visual style

Options

Leaderboard

Find the match is an open-ended template. It does not generate scores for a leaderboard.
Continue editing: ?