English

• What is caesura?


  A pause or break in a line of poetry.
• What is a couplet?

  A pair of lines in poetry
• What is an end stop?

  A line of poetry which ends with a strong pause
• What is enjambement?


  When a sentence flows over from one line to the next
• What is a quatrain?


  A groups of four lines in poetry
• What is a sestet?

  A group of six lines in poetry
• What is a stanza?


  A collection of lines in poetry
• What is a ballad?

  A song-like poem which tells a story
• What is a sonnet?

  A four-teen line poem which is about love. Contains a volta, change in rhyme scheme and tone of poem
• What is alliteration?


  Two words next to each other starting with the same letter
• What is assonance?


  Repetition of a vowel sound in two or more closely placed words
• What is consonance?


  Repetition of sound in a collection of words
• What is onomatopoeia?


  Words that imitate the sound they describe
• What is sibilance?


  Repetition of 's' sound in line
• What is an eye rhyme?


  Two words that look like they should rhyme from their spelling but actually sound different
• What is a full rhyme?


  A perfect rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry
• What is a half-rhyme?

  A rhyme which sounds close but is not perfect
• What is an internal rhyme?


  Two sounds that rhyme within a line of poetry
• What is a rhyme scheme?


  How the rhyme is set out in a poem
• What are connotations?


  Things that we associate with a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning e.g. rose has connotations of love
• What is a contrast?

  Two opposing ideas placed near each other
• What is diction?


  Writer's choice of words
• What is lexical field?


  Collection of words which all relate to a common idea
• What is a syntax?

  Arrangement of words in a sentence
• What is an iamb?

  Two syllables where the first is unstressed and the second is stressed
• What is iambic pentameter?

  When a poem is written with every line containing 5 iambs
• What is iambic tetrameter?

  When a poem is written with every line containing four iambs
• What is a syllable?

  A sound or beat
• What is a metaphor?


  Saying something is something else
• What is a simile?

  Describing one thing 'like' another
• What is personification?

  Giving objects human qualities