complete with themes, terminology etc for year 9
Themes in unseen poetry
death
love
life
family
loss
nature
conflict
fate
humanity
money
values
Pathetic fallacy (mirroring)
the idea of mirroring the emotions felt by the character through the descriptions of the environment
Pathetic fallacy (like personification)
giving human emotions to something which is not human (typically the environment)
Anaphora
when the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of each line
Antithesis
contrasting language situated in close proximity
Epigraph
piece of information about a poem at the beginning
Sestet
six line stanza
Caesura
when there is punctuation in the middle of a line
Enjambment
when a line spills over onto the next line
Polysyndeton
the multiple uses of ‘and’ to link ideas
Free verse
lack of rhyme scheme or meter
Mercurial
changing