English Litriture Flashcards
What is an alliteration?
Where words start with the same letter. It is often used in poetry to give a pattern to a phrase.
What is ambiguity?
Where a word or phase has two or more possible meanings.
What is an anaphora?
A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighbouring clauses for emphasis.
What is an antithesis?
A figure of speech in which words are phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithes is “To err is human, to forgive, divine”. (Alexander Pope).
What is an assonance?
When words share the same vowel sound but the consonants are different.
What is a blank verse?
Poetry that dosen’t rhyme, usually it is iambic pentameter.
What is a compound word?
A word that is made up of two or more other words put together e.g. “flame-red”
What is contrast?
When two things are described in a way which emphasises how different they are.
What is imagery?
Language that creates a picture in your mind.
What is a hyperbole?
A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. Many everyday expressions are examples of hyperbole: tons of money, waiting for ages, a flood of tears, etc.
What is a Couplet (In POETRY)?
In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length & usually rhyme & form a complete thought. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet.
What is an extended metaphor?
The continued use of a metaphor for a length of time, sometimes over the entire length of a poem.
What is an enjambment?
When a sentence runs over from one line to the next.
What are modal verbs?
They are used to express degrees of possibility, certainty, intention or necessity; examples are could, should, might & would.
What is an onomatopoeia.
A word that sounds like the thing it is describing eg “buzz, crunch, ‘bang’”.
