English Flashcards
What does Machiavellian mean?
Cunning and evil
What does P in PETAL mean?
Point
What does E in PETAL mean?
Evidence
What does T in PETAL mean?
Technique
What does A in PETAL mean?
Analysis
What does L in PETAL mean?
Link
Who is the Poet of ‘Does It really matter’?
Siegfried Sassoon
Who is the Poet of ‘Disabled’?
Wilfred Owen
Who is the poet of ‘Whos for the game’?
Jesse Pope
What is the point of the poem ‘Whos For The Game’?
Targetting young men telling them that war is all fun and games and enjoyable with your mates
What is the use of Propaganda in ‘Whos for The Game’?
Using a positive propaganda around war
What is Propaganda?
Biased behaviour
What does onomatopoeia mean?
The formation of a word for a sound associated with what is named
What does alliteration mean?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words
What is personification?
Presenting a personal nature or human characteristics as something non-human or the representation in human form
What is a simile?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of different kind, using the word ‘as’ or ‘like’
What is repetition?
The action of repeating something that has already been said or written
What is a metaphor?
A figurative speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which is not literally applicable
What is enjambment?
Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
What is rhythm?
A strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound
What is rhyme?
Sound between words or the ending of words, especially when these are used to the end of lines of poetry
What is stanza?
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem e.g. a verse
What is assonance?
Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, particularly from the rhyming of two or most vowels
What is pivot?
A turning point
What is caesura?
A break between words with an metrical foot
What is irony?
the expression of ones meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
What is fricatives?
A continent produced by forcing air out your mouth e.g T, B, P, V, Y
What is fricatives?
A continent produced by forcing air out your mouth e.g T, B, P, V, Y
