KS 3 poetry vocabulary
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imagery |
Imagery is when words are used to create a picture in a reader's mind.
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sonnet |
A sonnet is a love poem of 14 lines.
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assonance |
Assonance involves words that have the same vowel sound.
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couplet |
A couplet is a pair of lines of metre of a poem.
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repetition |
When words or phrases are repeated for effect we call it repetition.
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mood |
After the argument, he was in a terrible mood.
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theme |
The 'theme' is an idea or subject that recurs in a work of art or literature.
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technique |
We all admired the wood-carver's technique.
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limerick |
A limerick is a form of poetry with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA)and often humorous.
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riddle |
A riddle is a type of word puzzle.
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syllable |
A syllable is a beat in a word.
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enjambment |
Enjambment means to continue on a sentence on across two or more lines of poetry.
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acrostic |
An acrostic poem is when the first letter, syllable or word spells out a word.
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haiku |
A haiku is a short type of Japanese poem with only three lines.
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