Glossary Of Terms/Methods

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds create internal rhyming e.g. slice of ice

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Alliteration

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The same sound is repeated at the start of words that are close together

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Caesura

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Strong pause in a line

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Cinquain

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5 lines stanza

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Connotation

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The meanings implied by a particular word

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Consonance

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The repetition of the same consonant pattern two or more times in short succession, e.g. slither slather

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Couplet

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Two lines that rhyme

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End stopped lines

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Full stop at end of line

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Enjambment

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Lines that run over with no punctuation

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Hyperbole

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Extreme exaggeration

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Imagery

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To use figurative language to create a vivid picture in the mind of the reader

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Juxtaposition

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Two directly contrasting ideas

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that compares unlike objects, e.g. anger burned in his heart, butterflies in your stomach

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Monologue

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A long speech by one person

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like a sound - crash, pop, whiz

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech that joins together words of opposite meaning bittersweet, living dead

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Persona

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The character/persons in the poem

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Personification

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When animals or objects are said to have human characteristics

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Plosive consonants

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Harsh consonants such as ‘b’ and ‘p’

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Poetic voice

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The speaker in the poem

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Quatrain

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4 lined stanza

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Refrain

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A verse or poem that is repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, usually after the chorus or stanza

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Rhyme

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When two or more words have the same sound at the end of a line (internal/near)

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Semantic field

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A group of words that together create a theme in a text

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Sibilance

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Repeated ‘sss’ sound used at the beginning/within words close together

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Simile

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A comparison when we say one thing is ‘like’ something else

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line

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Stanza

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Verse

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Tercet

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3 lines stanza

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Theme

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The central idea of a poem; what it is about

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Tone

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The emotion that the author is feeling as they write

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Volta

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Where there is a ‘turning point’ within a poem, particularly sonnets