‘Terminology for analysing poetry Metre and Rhythm, jeasured arrangement of accents and syllables in poetry, alates to the variations of speed at which a poem is fo be read, It can be deter length of syllables and by how the poem is punctuated: Enc-stopped lines: lines where a sentence comes to close at the end ofthe line, thus causing a pause that disrupts the rhythm, Can prompt the reader to dwell on individual words. Enjambment: where the sentences carries over into the next line, Enjambment diminishes pauses and thus speeds up rhythm. Caesura: when punctuation is used to create a pause within a line. Vowel length: supports @ slower rhythm. Consonant elusters: supports a faster chythm. Sound patterns Full rhyme: when the two rhyming words begin with a different consonant sound, then have the same vowel sound, and end with the same consonant sound (nightidelight. Half rhyme: when only single consonant or vowel sounds are the same: chucklefickle reveriweather End-thyme: éhyme at the end of line. Internal chyme: rhyme within a line. Rhyme patterns: such as continuous (e2aa bbbb), rhyming couplets (aa bb co), alternating chyme. Alteration: repetition of consonant sounds atthe beginning of a sequence of words. Links words and their meanings through the similar sound, mimics sounds, Sibilant sounds: repeated''s'and ‘sh’ sounds, can be sott or sinister. Plosive sounds" by 'p,’'d, and ’ sounds. The offectis sharp and abrugt. Liquid sounds: "" sounds. Can create 2 sense of quick ight movement Fricative sounds: ‘fv and th’ sounds, Can create an ary effect. ‘Onomatoposia: when the sound of word when spoken imitates the sound to which it refers. Stanza forms and structure ‘Stanza: the units into whieh the lines of a poem are separated. ‘Couplet: stanza comprising of two lines of verse with various rhyme patterns. Tercet: stanza comprising of three lines of verse with various rhyme pattems. stanza comprising four fines of verse with various rhyme patterns. tanza comprising five lines of varse with various thyme patiers, Sestet: stanza comprising six ines of verse with various thyme pattems. Refrain: a phrase, in, of group of lines repeated at intervals throughout the poem. Figurative language Allusion: A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person place, event, or movement. Antithesis: when words and phrases with opposite meaning and implications are used to achieve contrast Hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration for effect. Irony: expressing an implied meaning that is different to the meaning directly stated. ‘Metaphor. a direct comparison. Personification: a figure of speech in which an abstraction, thing, or non-human form is described as. though it were human. ag Simi: an indirect comparison made with tke! or‘as ‘Symbolism: when an abject contained within the ficional viorld of the text represents ancther abstract meaning. Understatement: deliberate downplaying of a thing's importanes or significance. Zeomorphism; the attribution of animal characteristics to an inanimate thing, Imagery ‘Sensory imagory: language and description that invokes the senses (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, Kinaesthetic) : Synaestliesta: when the invocation of one senses described as simultaneously invoking another. Type ‘Sonnet: Usually a single stanza of fourteen lines or an octet followed by a sestet. Written in iambic entameter and deals with loft subject matter. Ballad: 2 song which tolls a story. Usually contains quatrains, Lyric: short, non-nacrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or emotional state, Free verse: verse which daes not rhyme and wich has lines of varying lengths.