Poetic Techniques

In this section we are assessing four assessment objectives:
AO1
Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and evaluate relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations;
AO2
Explore how language, structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas, themes and settings;
AO3
Make comparisons and explain links between texts, evaluating writers’ differing ways of expressing meaning and achieving effects; and
AO4
Relate texts to their social, cultural and historical contexts; explain how texts have been influential and significant to self and other readers in different contexts and at different times.

• –  versification and structure (use of some terms, e.g. quatrain,couplet, octave, metre, iambic rhythm);
  
• –  specific forms (e.g. ode, sonnet, monologue, lyric);
  
• –  similes and metaphors;
  
• –  imagery and use of the senses (especially visual imagery and auditory imagery); simile, metaphor, hyperbole
  
• –  alliteration and other “sound” features (e.g. assonance, consonance, repetition, rhyme and rhythm);
  -   onomatopoeia 
  -   tone/mood/atmosphere
  
• –  vocabulary choices;
  
• –  repetition of words or ideas;
  
• –  use of punctuation;
  
• –  visual impact of the poem on the page.