Poetry Terms 1
A figure of speech in which a connecting term such as "like" or "as" is used to make a comparison between items
simile
personification
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
Assonance
A comparison between two things that does not use a connecting term such as "like" or "as"
metaphor
the home of English football (main stadium)
Wembley
an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning
e.g. the sun
a human heart...
symbol
a unified group of lines in a poem often marked by spaces before and after...
stanza
the central meaning or message of the poem
theme
descriptive language that creates a picture in the reader's mind
imagery
the capital of Poland
Warsaw
repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text
consonance
a stanza or poem made up of four lines
quatrain
a reference in a work to a real or fictional person or to another work or to a historical event
allusion
the measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem including the number and placement or emphasis and number of syllables per line
meter
an African river that is ALSO the posh word for a 'turn' in a poem
Volta
the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry
Rhythm
the use of a word or phrase more than once
repetition
the attitude of the persona (speaker) toward the subject
tone
a pair of rhymed lines, or rhyming stanzas made up of two lines
couplet
the capital of Lichtenstein
Vaduz
The poet's (or author's) choice of words
Diction
when a line ends without a pause or punctuation and continues onto the next line
the last full-time manager of MUFC before Michael Carrick
Ruben Amorim
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
alliteration
the ground where the biggest ever football crowd gathered
Maracana