English AT4 Flashcards
Theme 1:
Sense of nostalgia/reminiscence for the old world
Theme 2:
Uncertainty and apprehension towards new settings
Theme 3:
Rootlessness and ambivalence in the new world (e.g. planting roots in the new world)
Theme 4:
Feelings of being an unwelcome foreigner or outsider (racism)
Theme 5:
Search for identity as they grapple with cultural displacement
AFOREST
Aliteration
Figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification)
Onomatopoeia/oral imagery
Rhythm, rhyme, repetition
Emotive langauge (nostalgia and homesickness)
Sensory imagery (sight, smell, sound, hear, taste)
Thirds (rule of thirds) or tricolon
Words to use
Elegy - a poem of serious reflection, typically grief for the dead
Attuned - adapt to surroundings
Ambivalence - doubt and uncertainty
Resonances and dissonances between texts - agreement and disagreement
Universal ideas transcend - ideas that are still relevant
Imaginative and subjective lens
Modern lens
Cyclical - reoccuring
Exalting- promotes
Omnipotent - all mighty
Brevity - shortness
Moreover
Duality between
Rhyming couplet and oxymoronic
Volta - turning point in poetry, maybe in conjunction with ellipsis …
Succumbs to the - submits to
Serenity and solace - peacefulness and tranquillity
Synaesthetic -Mental imagery
As such - conclusion
Manifested - evidenced from
Symbolism
Dislocation
Humor and low register