Poetic Techiques
Structure
Structure
A strong pause within a line of verse.
Caesura
What is this technique?
I'm foul mouthed now, foul tongued,
yellow fanged
If you name 2, it will be double points
Fricative
Enjambment
Anaphora
Metaphor
Define a simile
Comparing two things using "Like" or "As"
A cowboy tries to murder an astronaut to get the attention of a young boy
Toy Story
There once was a country… I left it as a child
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
There is a positive connotation in this line.
Where is it? How does the personal feel about this country? (Do not use the world positive or positively)
My memory of it is sunlight-clear
The personal has a warm, nostalgic feeling about this country
What is this structural technique?
perfect man, Greek God, my own;
Tricolon
Dishevelled leaves creep down
Personification
Define personification
Giving non-human objects human qualities/features
Man travels the universe to complete his rock collection.
Avengers: End Game
It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants,
but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.
Identify the technique here and be specific
Anaphora or repetition of "it may be"
Metaphor of being "branded" by sunlight
What is an epic poem?
A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. Typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values.
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue
Identify a technique present above.
Mythological/Historical Allusion
Metaphors
Define sibilance
Strongly emphasised hissing or hushing sounds (s, sh, z, ch)
A team of misfits take a very long walk to destroy a piece of jewellery.
The Lord of the Rings
The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes
glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks
and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves.
What is the bolded technique? Why have they used this techniqus
Simile is used to compare the tanks and frontiers as waves to associate it with danger (Tsunami)
What is this rhyming scheme?
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
ABABCDCD
A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy
Tricolon or rule of threes
Transforming something into something else that it cannot be.
Metaphor
An orphan battles against a cripple and a mentally ill man in a bid to regain control of the city.
The Dark Knight
What do traditional poem often explore or talk about?
What are the two different names for a stanza with 5 lines? (I will accept one)
Cinquain or Quintain
showed me a Gorgon.
I stared at a dragon.
What are the two techniques here?
Historical or cultural allusion
Rhyming couplet
Caesuras
Using weather to set tone/mood of the text
Pathetic Fallacy
Father reunites with a long-lost son and encourages him to take over the family business.
Star Wars - Empire strikes back
5
What does modernist poetry often explore and what was the event that inspired this?
Alienation, disillusionment, decay, identity
World War I and moving away from religion (secularism)