Poetic Terminology

4. beat or pace of the words
7. Technique:when two or more words together which start with the same letter sound.
8. Technique: when you make a a direct comparison between two things.
14. Technique: repetition of the ‘s’ sound
16. An idea or image associated with a word or image.
17. Technique: to describe when a word or phrase is used multiple times.
18. A word which describes how an action has been done and they usually end in ‘ly’
19. Technique: repetition of vowel sounds

1. Images created in a reader’s head when they read a poem
2. Technique: a word which sounds like the noise it makes.
3. Punctuation within a line of poetry
5. Technique: where you give an object human qualities.
6. How the poem is structured or organised. In a sonnet, for example, the poem confines thoughts and feelings to fourteen lines.
9. Technique: where there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry and the line continues onto the next line/stanza
10. A describing word
11. The voice in the poem
12. Technique: when you repeat a word or phrase at the start of successive lines
13. Technique: when you compare two things using as/like.
15. A type of noun which cannot be touched such as ‘love’, an ‘idea’ or ‘dreams’