A-Level Poetry Terminology

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Abstract noun
nouns which refer to ideas that cannot be touched or seen e.g. love
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Alliteration
the repitition of the same or similar sounds at the beginnings of the words in a line or phrase
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Allusion
Usually an implicit reference to another work of literature or art, a person or event e.g. the backyard was like a Garden of Eden
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Allegory
a narrative in which people, objects and events represent moral or spiritual ideas e.g. animal farm has an allegory for the Russian revolution, pigs as people in power
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Assonance
the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds that occur close together
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Caesura
a break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated by the natural vision of the language
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Asyndetic listing
the omission of conjunctions in sentence constructions
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Blank verse
poetry that is written unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Collective noun
refers to a group of people or things as a single unit e.g. 'team'
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Consonance
the repetition of similar consonant sounds
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Concrete noun
refers to physical thing like people, animals, places and objects that can be seen and measured
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Enjambment
a line ending in which the sense continues, with no punctuation, into the following line or stanza
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Elegy
a poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful
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Feminine rhyme
when the rhyme occurs in a final unstressed syllable
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Free verse
poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set metre
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Octave
also known as an octet, a group of 8 lines either in stanza form or as the first lines of a sonnet
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Pathetic fallacy
describes the poetic convention of attributing human emotions to nature or inanimate objects
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Polysyndetic listing
the use of multiple conjunctions
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Refrain
a line or group of lines that are repeated throughout a poem
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Sibilance
repetition of consonant sounds articulated with a hiss e.g. 's' or 'z'
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Syndetic Listing
the joining of two items with a conjunction
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the repitition of the same or similar sounds at the beginnings of the words in a line or phrase

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Alliteration

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Usually an implicit reference to another work of literature or art, a person or event e.g. the backyard was like a Garden of Eden

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a narrative in which people, objects and events represent moral or spiritual ideas e.g. animal farm has an allegory for the Russian revolution, pigs as people in power

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the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds that occur close together

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