Definitions
A literary work that expresses ideas or emotions using condensed language.
It emphasises the musical qualities of language by using techniques like rhyme and metre.
What is poetry?
Identical sounding syllables
What is rhyme?
A poem that is three lines with 5-7-5 syllables
What is a haiku?
Ideas or feelings evoked in addition to a literal, dictionary definition
What is a Blackout poetry?
The ordinary language people use, without patterns of metre or rhyme.
What is prose?
What is rhyme scheme?
What is an acrostic?
A figurative language technique where something is compared to something else, by using like or as.
What is simile?
A poem made using words, phrases or quotations that have been taken from other sources, like magazines.
For example, "An Unemployed Machinist" by John Giorno.
What is Found Poetry?
The structure and rules that determine how a poem is constructed
When words or phrases are used more than once, to create emphasis or rhythm.
What is a sonnet?
The emotions behind the words.
The poet's attitudes towards the subject matter.
What is tone?
A poem that takes another text and cuts it up, rearranging the cut-up bits of language into a poem.
What is Cut-up poetry or Decoupe?
Novelist who wrote 'Great Expectations' (1861) [that you may have used to create a Blackout poem!]
Who is Charles Dickens?
The pattern oof sounds perceived as beats
What is rhythm?
Poet who wrote 'The Red Wheelbarrow' (1923), an example of a concrete poem
Who is William Carlos Williams?
A figurative language technique where something is compared to something else, directly (without like or as).
What is metaphor?
What is free verse?
What is imagery?
A metrical pattern of x / / (stressed-unstressed-unstressed), like in Eliot's 'The Naming of Cats'.
What is a dactyl?
Poet who wrote 'Ars Poetica' (1926), an example of a poem about a poem
Who is Archibald MacLeish?
Figurative language that uses a concrete image to suggest an abstract idea.
For example, the colour red is a concrete image and danger is an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
A class of poems that follow a fixed set of rules about metrical pattern, rhyme or number of lines
What is fixed form?