Poetic Techniques

What is alliteration?

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• The use of words which imitate sounds

• Repetition of consonant sounds in words close together

• The use of words with matching sounds

What is assonance?

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• Words that appeal to the senses

• A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• A word, phrase or image which stands for something

What is consonance?

• The pace or beat of the poem

• Giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or inanimate objects

• A pair of lines, usually rhymed

• Repetition of consonant sounds

What is onomatopoeia?

• The purposeful re-use of words and phrases

• The use of words which imitate sound

• Lines with no regular structure, rhyme or rhythm

• None standard English, slang

What is repetition?

• The use of words with matching sounds

• A comparison saying something is something else

• The purposeful re-use of words and phrases

• A question which does not expect an answer

What is rhyme?

• Words that appeal to the senses

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together

• Repetition of a vowel sound

• The use of words with matching sounds

What is rhythm?

• A line ending in which the syntax, rhythm and thought are continued into the next line

• The pace or beat of the poem

• Non standard English, slang

• Words or phrases that cause an emotional response in the reader

What is imagery?

• Words that appeal to the senses

• A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• A word, phrase or image which stands for something else

• Giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or inanimate objects

What is a simile?

• A comparison saying something is something else

• A word, phrase or image which stands for something

• A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• The pace or beat of the poem

What is a metaphor?

• A question which does not expect an answer

• Lines with no regular structure, rhyme or rhythm

• A pair of lines, usually rhymed

• A comparison saying something is something else