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English Flashcards

1
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What does Machiavellian mean?

A

Cunning and evil

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2
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What does P in PETAL mean?

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Point

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What does E in PETAL mean?

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Evidence

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4
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What does T in PETAL mean?

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Technique

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5
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What does A in PETAL mean?

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Analysis

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What does L in PETAL mean?

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Link

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Who is the Poet of ‘Does It really matter’?

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Siegfried Sassoon

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Who is the Poet of ‘Disabled’?

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Wilfred Owen

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Who is the poet of ‘Whos for the game’?

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Jesse Pope

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What is the point of the poem ‘Whos For The Game’?

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Targetting young men telling them that war is all fun and games and enjoyable with your mates

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What is the use of Propaganda in ‘Whos for The Game’?

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Using a positive propaganda around war

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What is Propaganda?

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Biased behaviour

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13
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What does onomatopoeia mean?

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The formation of a word for a sound associated with what is named

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What does alliteration mean?

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words

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15
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What is personification?

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Presenting a personal nature or human characteristics as something non-human or the representation in human form

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16
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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of different kind, using the word ‘as’ or ‘like’

17
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What is repetition?

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The action of repeating something that has already been said or written

18
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What is a metaphor?

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A figurative speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable

19
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What is enjambment?

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Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

20
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What is rhythm?

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A strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound

21
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What is rhyme?

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Sound between words or the ending of words, especially when these are used to the end of lines of poetry

22
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What is stanza?

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A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem e.g. a verse

23
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What is assonance?

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Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, particularly from the rhyming of two or most vowels

24
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What is pivot?

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A turning point

25
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What is caesura?

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A break between words with an metrical foot

26
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What is irony?

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the expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite

27
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What is fricatives?

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A continent produced by forcing air out your mouth e.g T, B, P, V, Y

28
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What is fricatives?

A

A continent produced by forcing air out your mouth e.g T, B, P, V, Y

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