Features of Poetry (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

The voice you hear when reading a poem

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines

Two consecutive lines that rhyme

Creates comparisons beyond literal word meanings

Repeating consonant sounds at beginnings of words

Describes one thing as if it were another

Gives human characteristics to non-human things

Compares two things using 'like' or 'as'

10 syllables with alternating beats, no rhyme

Poetry without regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme