Poetic Terms

3. A recurring important idea or image.
5. language Words used deliberately to create an emotional impact or response.
8. Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
9. A comparison without the use of “like” or “as"
10. Language which describes something in detail
11. Compare by observing differences or opposites.
12. Is an over-exaggeration not meant to be taken literally
13. Specialist language of a particular trade, sport, pastime or area of study
15. Reference to matters outside of literary work
16. Where sounds are spelled out as words
19. Is the ordinary, everyday speech of a particular place and time period
20. The running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break (full stop, comma).
21. A term used to describe a tendency or preference

1. Feeling or mood in a text
2. Any use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves.
4. Where future events in a story, or perhaps the outcome, are suggested by the author before they happen.
6. The intention is for the opposite to be understood
7. An overused expression or idea
14. The placing of two things side by side so that similarities or differences between the two texts are made obvious.
17. Special atmosphere or mood created
18. Starts with the same letter