alliteration - Several words in the line begin with the same letter, e.g. ‘lone and level’., anaphora - Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines., assonance - Vowel rhyme, where the same vowel sound is repeated in several nearby words, e.g. ‘brimming river’, dramatic monologue - A poem in which a speaker talks to a silent listener, enjambment - The continuation of a sentence without a pause (usually from punctuation) at the end of a line, couplet, or stanza., caesura - punctuation that causes a break in the middle of a line, metaphor - A comparison which states that one thing IS another thing. An extended metaphor carries on the same comparison through the poem, e.g. ‘Storm on the Island.’, oxymoron - Contrasting/ contradictory words are brought together, e.g. ‘Exploding comfortably’, ‘bitter-sweet’., personification - Presenting a non-human thing as if it were human, e.g. The eagle ‘clasps the crag with crooked hands’., sibilance - Repetition of ‘s’, ‘sh’ or ‘z’ sounds, e.g. ‘Space is a salvo’., simile - A comparison with ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g. ‘Like a thunderbolt, he falls.’, blank verse - Unrhymed iambic pentameter verse., free verse - Verse without regular rhythm/ rhyme., iambic pentameter - Each line has 5 pairs of beats, with the stress on the second beat of each pair., quatrain - A stanza with 4 rhyming lines., refrain - A line/ group of lines which is repeated through the poem., rhyming couplet - A pair of rhyming lines., stanza - A block of verse: the separate ‘paragraphs’ of a poem., sonnet - A poem with 14 lines, auditory, olfactory, tactile and gustatory imagery - Sound, smell, feel and taste imagery,

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