Poetic Terminology

3. A describing word
5. Technique: when you repeat a line or word at the start of a line poetry.
8. The feelings in a poem or how the poet was feeling when they wrote it
11. Technique: where you give an object human qualities.
12. Images created in a reader’s head when they read a poem?
15. Technique: deliberate exaggeration, used to emphasise a point.
17. How the poem is structured or organised? In a sonnet, for example, the poem confines thoughts and feelings to fourteen lines.
18. A type of noun which cannot be touched such as ‘love’, an ‘idea’ or ‘dreams’
19. Technique: to describe when a word or phrases Is used multiple times.
21. Technique: when two or more words together which start with the same letter sound.

1. Technique: when you compare two things using as/like.
2. Punctuation within a line of poetry
4. Technique: where there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry and the line continues onto the next line/stanza
6. The speaker in the poem
7. Technique: a word which sounds like the noise it makes.
9. A word which describes how an action has been done and they usually end in ‘ly’
10. An idea or image associated with a word or image.
13. Technique: when you say something is something else.
14. Technique: repetition of vowel sounds
16. The beat or pace of the words
20. Technique: repetition of the ‘s’ sound