English Poetry revisioin

• Simile


  A comparison using "like" or "as"
• Metaphor


  A comparison without using like or as

  e.g Life is a rollercoaster
• Personification


  A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
• Ryhme


  Repetition of sounds at the end of words
• Alliteration


  Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Onomatopoeia


  A word that imitates the sound it represents.

  Sound Effects e.g BOOM
• Hyperbole


  exaggeration

  e.g I'm so hungry i could eat a cow
• Irony


  A contrast between expectation and reality
• Symbol


  A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

  e.g. While is oftne used to symbolise peace, cleanliness and purity.
• Theme


  The general idea of a text

  e.g The circle of life.

  e.g Love-platonic love, patriotic love, romantic love
• Tone


  Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

  e.g Wary

  Optimistic

  Sarcastic
• Cinquain


  an unrhymed 5 line poem about a person, place, thing, ides or emotion
• Diamente


  an unrhymed 7 line poem
• Limerick


  a humorous 5 line poem
• Haiku


  A Japanese poetic form that is a 3 line poem with 575 syllables respectively.
• Acrostic poem


  a poem that uses the letters of a word to begin each line and the poem is about the word
• shape poem


  it has the shape of the subject of the poem and the poem is all bout the subject