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POETRY TECHNICAL TERMS
English Literature
ALLITERATION
Repetition of the initial letters of words
ANAPEST
The unit of rhythm that has 2 light beats followed by a strong
beat
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house
ANTITHESIS
Two contrasted things or ideas
Many are called, but few are chosen
APOSTROPHE
Talking to someone as though they were present
On me your voice falls as they say love should
ASSONANCE
The repetition of vowel sounds
On a proud round cloud in high white night
BATHOS
Suddenly going from the elevated to the ordinary for comic effect
Once we had something that was pure, and unadulterated and wonderful. What
happened? We spent it all
CADENCE
Falling to rest or closing of a phrase
It had not done so then, and could not now
CAESURA
Pause in the middle of a line through punctuation
As when she played them first. But, even more
CARICATURE
Exaggeration as in a cartoon
Small-statured cross-faced tribes
CLICHE
Well-worn words and phrases which have lost their impactLove at first sight
DACTYL
A rhythmic unit of one strong beat followed by two weak beats
Just for a handful of silver he left us
DIDACTIC
Setting out to teach or give moral guidance
Never such innocence again
EMPIRICIST
Inclined to trust the evidence of the senses rather than theory
FOOT
A unit of rhythm in literature, equivalent to a bar in music, consisting of stressed and
unstressed syllables
HALF RHYME
An imperfect rhyme; two words which almost rhymemade/mate
HUMANIST
Someone who rejects supernatural beliefs
IAMB
A rhythmic unit having a weak followed by a strong beat
I am a teacher with a happy smile
IMAGERY
Figurative language which appeals to the senses
Slack hammocks of waves below
INVERSION
Changing the order of wordsRemoved lives loneliness
clarifies
LACONIC
Short but to the point
Home is so sad
METAPHYSICAL
Very theoretical, difficult to understand
How separate and unearthly love is
NIHILISM
Rejection of all morals and standards
Someone had used a knife or something to stab right through the moustached lips of
her smile
PARODY
Imitating something with exaggeration to make it look
absurdNo one can deny that Arnold is less selfish
than I
PATHOSQuality of writing that can induce
pityTo cry, was hard
PENTAMETER
A line that contains five rhythmic units
The dog is eating ham with eggs and chips
SARDONIC
With a hint of bitterness
SATIRE
Holding up wickedness or foolishness to ridicule
He married a woman to stop her getting away now she’s there all day
SPRUNG RHYTHM
Having the same number of beats in each line but varying the number of unstressed
syllables
TETRAMETER
A line with four units of rhythm
Because I could not stop for death
TROCHEE
A rhythmic unit having a strong beat followed by a weak beat
Double double toil and trouble
ZEUGMA
Connecting words that have very different meanings
Confetti and advice were thrown