Glossary (1)

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Alliteration

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Where words start with the same letter. It’s often used in poetry to give a nice pattern to a phrase or to make it memorable. E.g the little I knew was less limited than now

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Adjective

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A word that describes something e.g big, fast, annoying.

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Ambiguity

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Where a word or phrase has two or more possible meanings

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Assonance

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When words share the same vowel sound but the consonants are different. E.g “trees” and “leads” in ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’

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Ballad

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A form of poetry that tells a story and can often be set to music

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Blank verse

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Poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn’t rhyme

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Caesura

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A break in the rhythm of a line, often shown with punctuation marks

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Colloquial

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Sounding like everyday spoken language

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Consonance

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When words have the same consonant sounds but different vowel sounds e.g years, yours

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Consonants

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All the letters in the alphabet that aren’t vowels

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Contrast

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When two things are described in a way which emphasises how different they are. E.g a poet might contrast two different people or two different voices

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Dialect

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A variation of a language. People from different places or backgrounds might use different words or sentence constructions. E.g Scottish people say wee instead of small

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Elegy

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A poem written to mourn the death of someone

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Emotive

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Something that makes you feel a particular emotion e.g anger, sorrow, joy

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Empathy

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When someone feels as if they understand what someone else is experiencing and how they feel about it

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End stopping

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Finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence

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Enjambment

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When a sentence or phrase runs over from one line to the next

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Euphemism

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An indirect term for something upsetting or offensive

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First person

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When someone talks about them self, or a group of people which includes them, using words like I and me

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Form

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The type of poetry and its features (rhyme, rhythm, stanza length) e.g a sonnet, ballad, free verse

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Free verse

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Poetry that doesn’t rhyme and has no regular rhythm

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Iambic pentameter

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Poetry with a metre of ten syllables - five of them stressed, and five unstressed. The stress falls on every second syllable e.g be’neath’ her ‘gaze’ I ‘could’n’t ‘help’ but ‘slouch’

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Imagery

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Language that creates a picture in your mind. It includes metaphors and similes

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Internal rhyme

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When words within a single line of a poem rhyme e.g come ‘bounding’ and ‘surrounding’ me

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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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Language

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The choice of words used. Different kinds of language have different effects on the reader

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Layout

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The way a piece of poetry is visually presented to the reader e.g line length, whether the poem is broken up into different stanzas, whether lines create some kind of visual pattern