Year 9 Poetry Key Words 1

An adjective describing the effect of alliteration in a poem.

• Image

• Context

• Personal Response

• Alliterative

The poet’s life and the time in which the poem was written (historical context).   

• Image

• Context

• Personal Response

• Persona

The picture created in the mind of the reader from the words in the poem is known as the ...

An adjective describing the effect of onomatopoeia in a poem.

• Structure

• Onomatopoeic

• Personal response

• Voice

An invented perspective that a writer uses; the perspective might be entirely different to their own is know as a ...

Your ideas, thoughts or feelings on reading the poem.

• Structure

• Onomatopoeic

• Personal response

• Voice

An adjective describing the effect of the structural features in a poem

• Structural

• Onomatopoeic

• Image

• Voice

An adjective describing the effect of symbolism in a poem.

• Structural

• Symbolises

• Image

• Symbolic

A main idea or topic of a poem.

The speaker of the poem.