Glossary

• Alliteration

  Words beginning with the same sound
• Anaphora/anaphoric repition

  The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several sentences, clauses or stanzas
• Assonance

  Repetition of the same vowel sound for effect in multiple words close together
• Caesura

  A pause within a line of poetry, usually created by punctuation.
• Consonance

  Repetition of the same consonant sound for effect in multiple words close together
• Cyclical structure

  A text begins in the same way that it ends
• End stop

  A line ending at a grammatical boundary or break
• Enjambment

  When a sentence runs from one line of poetry into the next line without any punctuation marks
• Emotive language

  Words and phrases that cause an emotional response in the reader
• Extended metaphor

  A metaphor that is added to or developed over a number of lines or across a text
• Declarative


  A statement
• Discourse marker

  A word or phrase that manages the flow and structure of a text
• Free verse

  Poetry without a regular rhyme or rhythm
• Hyperbole

  Deliberate exaggeration
• Iambic pentameter

  A line of verse with five metrical feet each consisting of on unstressed syllable followed by on stressed syllable
• Imagery

  Visually descriptive or figurative language
• Imperative 


  A command
• Interrogative

  A question
• Juxtaposition 


  Placing two contrasting ideas next to another
• Message

  The overall meaning of the poem
• Metaphor

  Imagery that makes a direct comparison without using like or as
• Mood

  Refers to the atmosphere in the poem and is closely linked to the tone
• Narrative poem 


  A poem that tells a story
• Narrator 


  The person who recounts the events of a novel
• Onomatopoeia 


  Use of words which echo their sound
• Personification

  When a poet gives human features to non living things
• Poetic form

  The physical structure or type of poem
• Repetition

  A common feature that is repeated through out a poem
• Rhyme

  The use of words with matching sounds
• Rhythm 


  The beat or pace of the words
• Sibilance

  Repetition of soft constant sounds
• Simile

  Comparisons using like or as
• Speaker

  The voice used in a poem
• Stanza

  A section of a poem
• Structure

  The organisation of ideas within a poem
• Structure 


  What the poem is literally about
• Theme

  Key ideas of the poet
• Zoomorphism 


  Giving non-animals things animal features