ENG Poetry Devices

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Devices for analysis of Poetry in English GCSE (some may overlap with non poetry related devices)

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Dramatic monologue

a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener

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Monorhyme

the use of only one rhyme in a stanza (AAAA)

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Direct address

speaking directly to the audience

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Antithesis

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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Parallelism

similar / identical of structure of related words, phrases, lines

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Isocolon

use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clauses (less exact than parallelism)

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Alternate rhyme

ABAB

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Enjambment

no punctuation at the end of a line

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Dub Poetry

Combining spoken poetry with reggae music or rhythms

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Refrain

repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines

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iambic pentameter

a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable

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Assonance

Repetition of vowel sounds (ex. Killed, cold, culled)

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Synedoche

using one part of an object to represent the entire object (ex. Heart & body)

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Polysyndetic list

"And.... And.... And" conjunctions used after each term on the list

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Asyndetic list

a list with no conjunctions

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Polyptoton

repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings

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Volta

A turning point in a poem, when the argument or tone changes dramatically

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Interjection

Use of "O" to exaggerate ex. "O hear me"

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