Poetry Terminology

What is caesura?

• a verse in a poem.

• comparing two things

• a brief pause

• repetition of a vowel sound

What is this an example of?

'I remember when you...'

Choose 2 answers.

• direct address

• personal pronoun

• adjective

• adverb

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things

• comparing two things using like or as

• comparing two things saying something 'is' something else

• saying something is amazing

What is a simile?

• saying it is not real

• the opposite of something

• saying something is different

• comparing two things saying something is 'like' something else

What is enjambment?

• where one line is close to another

• where the structure of a poem is unusual

• when one line runs on from another in a poem

• a full stop at the end of a line

Why might enjambment be used in a poem? Choose 2.

• to create fluidity in a poem

• to change an idea from one line to the next

• to make it rhyme

• to make something obvious

What is anaphora?

• repeating a sound

• repeating a letter

• repeating a sequence of words/phrases

What is assonance?

• repetition of a word

• repetition of a phrase

• repetition of a simile

• repetition of a vowel sound

What does content mean?

• the methods used in a poem

• the writer

• the ideas included in a poem

• the structure of a poem

What can we discuss for structure? Choose 3.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• alliteration

• enjambment