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    This document lists and defines various poetic techniques including: - Types of structure such as iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets, and cyclical structure. - Literary devices such as metaphor, simile, personification, and juxtaposition. - Mood and tone elements like emotive language, irony, and exclamatory language. - Imagery like synecdoche, zoomorphism, and semantic fields. The document provides examples of over 50 poetic techniques for analysis at different levels of poetry.

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    This document lists and defines various poetic techniques including: - Types of structure such as iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets, and cyclical structure. - Literary devices such as metaphor, simile, personification, and juxtaposition. - Mood and tone elements like emotive language, irony, and exclamatory language. - Imagery like synecdoche, zoomorphism, and semantic fields. The document provides examples of over 50 poetic techniques for analysis at different levels of poetry.

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    Poetic Techniques

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    Syeda Hafiza
    This document lists and defines various poetic techniques including: - Types of structure such as iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets, and cyclical structure. - Literary devices such as metaphor, simile, personification, and juxtaposition. - Mood and tone elements like emotive language, irony, and exclamatory language. - Imagery like synecdoche, zoomorphism, and semantic fields. The document provides examples of over 50 poetic techniques for analysis at different levels of poetry.

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    Poetic techniques

    Can you find an example of each of these and confidently zoom in on them? (AO1 and AO2)

    Aubade

    Allusion

    Elegy

    The (metaphysical) conceit

    Quatrain

    Syllogism (form of reasoning: conclusion drawn from 2 propositions)

    Parallelism

    Apostrophe / apostrophize

    Allegory

    Anagram

    Classical allusion

    Bawdy humour

    Euphemism

    Sexual innuendo / double entendre

    Colloquial language

    Emotive language

    Simile

    Metaphor

    Anaphora

    Juxtaposition

    Antithesis

    Irony

    Idiom

    Synecdoche

    Symbolism
    Tautology

    Pathetic fallacy

    Parenthesis

    Hyperbole

    Denouement

    Zoomorphism

    In Media Res

    Exclamatory mood

    Extended metaphor

    Connotations

    Semantic field

    Structure:

    Iambic pentameter

    Iambic trimester

    Iambic tetrameter

    Tripartite structure

    Rhyming couplet

    Rhyming triplet

    Irregular rhyming couplets

    Alternate rhyme scheme

    Caesura

    Enjambment

    End-stopping

    Masculine rhyme (1 syllable)

    Feminine rhyme (2 or more syllables)

    Foregrounding
    Juxtaposition

    Anaphora

    Sibilance

    Dramatic monologue

    Non-linear structure

    Cyclical structure

    Lyrical ballad

    Lexical field

    Octave

    Plosives

    Imagery and diction:

    Interrogatives (rhetorical and otherwise)

    Imperative language

    Exclamatories

    Declaratives

    Paradox

    Synecdoche

    Metaphor

    Simile

    Personification

    Noun (abstract, concrete, proper)

    Post and pre-modifying adjectives

    Verb (active, passive, violent?)

    Adverb / adverbial phrase


    Sound effects

    Alliteration (plosive p b k c? Fricative f v?)

    Sibilance

    Assonance

    Onomatopoeia

    Plosives

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