Poetic techniques

• Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary device that repeats the same letter or sound at the beginning of words, which are closely connected. Alliteration is used to create rhythm and mood.
• Allusion :Allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
• Assonance :Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in a phrase or sentence
• Couplet: Couplet refers is a successive pair of lines in a poem. The pair of lines that comprise a couplet generally rhyme with each other and contain the same meter.
• Double Couplet : The repetition of sounds to create a rhyming pattern- AABB. Double couplets within a quatrain may be used to create a strong positive rhythm. In poetry, a couplet is a pair of lines in a verse. Typically, they rhyme and have the same meter, or rhythm. They make up a unit or complete thought.
• Emotive Language : Emotive Language is a way of writing were the author deliberately choices his/her words carefully to create and evoke emotion within the reader. It is about word choice which can evoke different reactions, such as sadness or joy. Upon reading, the reader begins to feel or have their senses awaken as the words impact on their emotional levels.
• Enjambment(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. Used to quicken pace for the reader/listening or create a sense of urgency.
• Epigraph: Epigraph is a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a text, intended to suggest its theme.
• Hyperbole: Hyperbole refers to exaggerated claims or statements not meant to be taken literally, often utilised for dramatic or poetic effect.
• Imagery:Imagery is the use of words to create images in the reader’s mind based on the five senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste. It can also relate to emotion (how one feels inside) and involve the use of descriptive language to paint a picture using words.
• Metaphor: Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• Mood: Mood refers to inducing of or suggesting of a particular feeling or state of mind
• Personification: Personification is a literary device often used in poetry where human characteristics are applied to make inanimate things, objects or even animals enlivened.
• Quatrain: Quatrain is a literary device that contributes to the structure of a poem. It is a four-line stanza employing a very tight rhyme scheme.
• Repetition: Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same sounds, words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. Repetition is used to emphasise a feeling or idea, create rhythm and familiarity, and/or develop a sense of urgency.
• Rhyme: Rhyme occurs when words are placed in a way that emphasises the repetition of sounds (particularly vowel sounds). End rhyme occurs when the last words in two or more lines of poetry rhyme. Internal rhyme occurs when two or more words in a single line rhyme.
• Simile: Simile is a literary device that compares one thing with another using like or as. Similes are used to create to help create an image and enable you to better visualise the image.
• Symbolism:Symbolism is used when the poet invites the reader to see something standing for something else, e.g. an object or word to represent and abstract idea.
• Tone :Tone is the the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
• VerseA verse is a group of words written as part of a larger work such as a novel, play, or poem.
• Consonance: Consonance is a literary device involving the repetition of consonants at the beginning of words.