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Name 5 poetic devices

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Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Ononmatepia
Alliteration
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Name 6 types of poems

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Ballads
Haikus
Shape Poetry
Sonnets
Lyrics
Free Verse
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What is a simile

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A simile is another name for a comparison, when you compare objects you might say ‘Ella is tall, But Alexis is small’

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a comparison between 2 thing, For example: Lawson is a clown, Jim is a speeding bullet.

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What is personification?

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Personification is where you attribute human characteristics to objects.

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What is Onomatopoeia?

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Onomatopoeia is the term used for words and noises that sound the same, words that name the sound.

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What is Alliteration?

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Alliteration is a term used to describe the repetition of the same sound in a line, stanza or sometimes a poem. For example; she sells sea shells on the sea shore.

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What is a ballad?

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A ballad is a poetic form that tells a story. Ballads are similar to folk tales, they reflect the culture, music and heritage of a particular place.

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What are Haikus?

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Haikus are one of the most famous types of the non-rhyming poems. This type of poems come from Japan and is characterised by the structure of the lines. Most haiku poems focus on the natural world. The modern day haiku is written with a pattern of 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables

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What is Shape Poetry?

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Shape poetry is an interesting way of putting your ideas about an object or emotion into the shape of the object you are writing about.

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What are sonnets?

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The sonnet is a form of lyric poetry. The word has its origins in Italy and comes from the Italian world ‘Sonetto’ which means ‘little song’. The most famous sonnets are from William Shakespeare. These consists of 14 lines, 10 syllables in each.

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What are lyrics in English

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Ballads are not the only form of Poetry that are written to be sung. Song Lyrics are a more popular form in which people engage with poetic forms. Many songs lyrics use devices of poetry such as similes, metaphors, personification and alliteration.

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What are the sub genres inside the genre drama

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Melodrama
Biographical
Romance
Sports film 
Road film
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What are the film genres?

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Action//musicals
Adventure//science fiction
Comedy//War 
Crime//Drama
Epics//Westerns
Horror
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What are sub genres?

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Sub genres are identified sub classes within the larger film genre, with their own distinctive subject matter, style,formulas and iconography

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Film genres & sub genres are identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films that have similar techniques or conventions, those convents are?

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Content//Subject matter
Structures//themes
Mood//period
Plot//setting
Resuming icons//stock characters
Narrative events//situations
Motifs//styles
Props//stars
17
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What are the sub genres of action

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Spy 
Espionage
Martial arts film
Political thrillers
Races against time
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What are the adventure sub genres

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Swashbuckler
Serialised film
Historical films
Expedition films
Disaster films
Strange Mysteries
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What are adventure films

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Adventure films are exciting stories with new experiences, often set in exotic locations

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What are comedy movies?

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Comedy films are created to amuse and provoke laughter by exaggerating or parodying situations, relationships, and characters

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What are the comedy sub genres

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Slapstick
Romantic comedy
Black Humour
Satire

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What are crime movies

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Crime films feature the sinister actions of criminals and gangsters, mobsters and underworld figures who operate outside the law

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What are the sub genres in crime?

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Gangster
Detective 
Film Noir
Mystery
Suspense
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What are drama movies

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Dramas are a serious plot - driven films, portraying realistic settings, characters and relationships. The film represents intense character developments and interaction.

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What are the drama sub genres

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Melodrama
Biographical
Romance
Sports Films
Road films
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What are predicates?

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The predicate is the part of the sentence that tells us about the subject.
Eg. John BOUGHT THE TSHIRT ONLINE ‘ bought the Tshirts online tells us the action

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What are free verse

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A free verse poem has no particular pattern or structure, it has more to do with the expression of ideas

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Definition of alliteration

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The term used to describe repetition of the same sound used in a line, stanza or sometimes a poem

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Definition of onomatepia

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A term used for words and noises that name the sound they make

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Definition of personification

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A phrase when you attribute human characteristics to objects

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Definition of metaphor

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A phrase that compares two or more things. But unlike a simile it doesn’t user he words like or as

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Definition of similes

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A descriptive phrase that uses the words ‘like’ or ‘as’

They compare 2 or more things

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