Poetic Features and Techniques

• Key features often used:

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Rhyming couplets
• Stanzas
• Lexis
• Punctuation
• Enjambment 
• Caesura
• Alliteration
• Ambiguity 
• End-stopped
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia
• Iambic pentameter 
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Romanticism
• Personification
• Blank verse
• Assonance
• Ballad
• Character
• Dactyl
• Dialogue 
• Exposition
• Foot
• Free verse 
• Hyperbole
• Imagery
• Meter
• Narrator
• Narrative poem
• Quatrain
• Satire
• Setting
• Structure
• Theme
• Tone
• Verse form
• Line length
• Line break
• Voice