English Flashcards

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Personification

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Something non-human given human qualities.

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Rhetorical Question

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A question that isn’t meant to be answered.

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3
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Imagery

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A picture created in the minds eye by the words on the page.

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4
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Pun

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A joke using a play on words.

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5
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Satire

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The use of humor to criticise something.

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Alliteration

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When words that begin with the same sound are placed beside or close to one another.

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7
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Assonance

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The repitition of broad vowel sounds.

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8
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Onomatopea

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When a word sound like its’ meaning.

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9
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Metaphor

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When one thing is described as being something else.

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10
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Name 3 poems and their authors

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Base Details
Siegfried Sassoon

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare

Personal Helicon
Seamus Heaney

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11
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What is the theme of Base Details?

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A satirical poem that mocks the inequalities of war.

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What is Base Deatails about?

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It mocks an unfit major.
He isn’t a source of inspiration for the soilders.

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13
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Quote using Visual Imagery, Base Details.

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“If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath”
We imagine the major in an unflattering way, bad tempered and overwieght.

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Quote using Alliteration, Base Details.

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“My puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,”
Alliteration can be used to set the tempo of a poem, in this example it slows the poem down.

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15
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Pun, Base Details.

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The Tiltle of the poem contains a pun.
Base has 2 meaning, a camp/building, and disgusting.
Deatils has 2 meanings, list or army instructions, and information.

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Satire, Base Details.

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The major is being mocked and satirised.

17
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Tone, Base Details.

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Sarcastic and Critical.

18
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Theme, Sonnet 18.

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Love and Romance

19
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What is Sonnet 18 about?

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It explores how their love will survive death.

20
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Quote using metaphor, Sonnet 18.

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“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?”
He compares who he loves to a nice Summers day.

21
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Quote using Personification, Sonnet 18.

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“Nor shall death brag thou wanter’st in his shade,”
Personification of death.

22
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Rhetorical Question, Sonnet 18.

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“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?”
No answer is needed as he continues to compare her to a summer day.

23
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Rhyming Scheme, Sonnet 18.

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Rhyming Scheme of ABAB such as in lines 1, 2, 3, 4: “day” “temperate” “May” “date”

24
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Tone, Sonnet 18.

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Confindent and Passionate.

25
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Form, Sonnet 18.

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Sonnet
14 lines
3 quatrants (lines)
Rhyming couplets (2 lines)

26
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4 Lines

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Quatrant

27
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2 Lines

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Couplet

28
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Theme, Personal Helicon

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Growing up.
How ordinary things (wells) can become inspiration for poetry.

29
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3 Language Techniques and examples, Personal Helicon.

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Alliteration
“Dark Drop”

Onematopea
“Crash” of the bucket

Metaphor
Echos and sheet music.

30
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Tone, Personal Helicon.

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Nostolgic.