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English Litriture Flashcards

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What is an alliteration?

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Where words start with the same letter. It is often used in poetry to give a pattern to a phrase.

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What is ambiguity?

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Where a word or phase has two or more possible meanings.

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What is an anaphora?

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A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighbouring clauses for emphasis.

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What is an antithesis?

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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).

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What is an assonance?

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When words share the same vowel sound but the consonants are different.

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What is a blank verse?

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Poetry that dosen’t rhyme, usually it is iambic pentameter.

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What is a compound word?

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A word that is made up of two or more other words put together e.g. “flame-red”

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What is contrast?

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When two things are described in a way which emphasises how different they are.

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What is imagery?

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Language that creates a picture in your mind.

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What is a hyperbole?

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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.

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What is a Couplet (In POETRY)?

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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.

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What is an extended metaphor?

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The continued use of a metaphor for a length of time, sometimes over the entire length of a poem.

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What is an enjambment?

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When a sentence runs over from one line to the next.

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What are modal verbs?

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They are used to express degrees of possibility, certainty, intention or necessity; examples are could, should, might & would.

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What is an onomatopoeia.

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A word that sounds like the thing it is describing eg “buzz, crunch, ‘bang’”.

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What is a syllable?

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A single unit of wound within a word.

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What is a soliloquy?

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A device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself/herself, relating thoughts & feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections.

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What is a sonnet?

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A type of poem with fourteen lines & usually following a clear a clear rhyme pattern. They will often have a ten syllables a line & end with a rhyming couplet. Example: Ozymandias.

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What is an Oxymoron?

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Juxtaposition of contradictory elements e.g. living dead.

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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A regular system of rhyming words in a poem.

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What is a simile?

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A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, usually by using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ example: “He was pale as the moon”.

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What is a Persona (In english litrature)?

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A fictional character of identity adopted by a poet.

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What is pathetic fallecy?

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Pathetic fallecy is attributing of human emotion & conduct to all aspects within nature (a type of personification).

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What is a paradox?

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A statement that apparently contradicts itself & yet might be true.

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What is a personification?

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A special kind of metaphor where you write about something as if it is a person with thoughts & feelings eg “the sea growled hungrily”.

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What is a syntax?

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The way a sentence is put together so that it make sense.

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What is a lexis?

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A set of words.

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What is an extended metaphor?

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The continued use of an metaphor for a length of time, sometimes over the entire length of a poem.

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What is a dramatic monologue?

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A type of poerty written in the form of a speech of an induvidual character.

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What is a metaphor?

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A way of describing something by saying that it is something else, to create a visual image e.g. “His eyes were deep, black, oily pools”.

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What is a metaphor?

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A way of describing something by saying that it is something else, to create a visual image e.g. “His eyes were deep, black, oily pools”.

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What is irony?

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When words are used in a sarcastic or comic way to imply the opposite of what they normally mean. It can also mean when there is a big difference between what people expect and what actually happens.

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What is a dialect?

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Regional variation of a language.

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What is a phrase?

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A group of words without a main verb.

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What is a setting?

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Where the events take place.

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What is a perspective?

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A particular view of something.

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