Important techniques Flashcards
Anagnorisis
Moment of reveal where main characters come to a complete understanding of their own circumstances and what they are seeing
Satire
The use of humour, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and critique people’s stupidity (particularly in context of contemporary politics or other topical issues)
Moral desert
Getting what you deserve
Iam
The stresses of the syllables
Free verse
No rhyme, no metre
Blank verse
No rhyme, but metre
Spondee
Two stresses
Half-rhyme
Half repeated sound
Complete/ full rhyme
Repeated sound
No rhyme
No repetition of sound
Sibilence
‘S’ sound
Declarative
Making a statement
Imperative
Demand/ telling someone to do something
Exclamatory
Exclaiming something (importance)
Interrogative
Questioning
Anaphora
Repetition of first part/ couple words
Volta
Change in tone/ turning point
Dental alliteration
‘d’ alliteration
Enjambment
No pause/ break between lines
Asyndeton
Repetition of commas
Flippart
Disrespectful
Polysyndeton
Repetition of ‘and’
Caesura
A pause in a poem
Consonance alliteration
Consonant alliteration
Elegy poem
Dedicated to someone who has died
Bathos
Anti-climatic finish
Conversation poem
Sounds like a conversation
Omnipresent
God-like force
Apathetic
Shows/feels no emotion
Refrain
Repeated line through poem
Hubris
Fatal flaw of pride
Soliloquey
When a character speaks about thoughts in their heads out loud when no one can hear them
The great chain of being
The order of living beings, God -> Animals
Malapropism
Mistaken use of a word for a familiar sounding word, creates comedic effect
Farce
A play that creates ridiculous and absurd situations, intended for comedic effect
Natural imagery
Using animals, landscapes and plants to create an atmosphere and scene
