poetic techniques

• alliteration


  where the same sound is repeated - sibilance='s', fricative=hard continents
• half-rhyme


  word that half-rhyme at the end of a line, hard final consonant different vowel
• enjambment


  lines run on to the next line
• blank verse


  unrhyming iambic pentameter
• iambic pentameter


  10 stressed and unstressed syllables alternating one after the other
• caesura


  a pause during the line of poetry, greater then a comma
• dramatic monologue


  character talking to someone who doesn't talk back, one-side conversation, reveals true character
• foreshadowing


  hints at what is coming in the future
• free verse


  verses without regular rhythm or pattern, but can contain some rhyme or repetition
• irony


  deliberately saying one thing when you mean another, humorous, sarcastic
• juxtaposition


  putting two things next to each other for comparison
• oxymoron


  two contrasting things put next to eachother
• sonnet


  14 lined verse - 8lines, volta, 6lines
• rhyme scheme's


  ABABAB

  AABBAABB

  ABBAC
• definite article


  introduces a noun phrase

  the
• indefinite article 


  introduces a noun phrase

  a or an
• dialect


  accent and vocabulary used in a specific region
• idiom 


  well-known phrase
• plosive


  consonants beginning with harsh sound eg p, b, t
• quatrain 


  4 line stanza
• quintain 


  5 lines in a stanza