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What is emotive language?

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Language to create an emotional response

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What are connotations?

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An idea associated with a word or phrase

‘red is danger’

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What is a Juxtaposition?

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To place words side by side to emphasise contrast

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Whit is assonance?

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Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming

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What is anaphora?

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Repetition of a word at the start of sentences

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What is an onomatopoeia?

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Words that sound like their action

‘Zip’

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What is sibilance?

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Strongly emphasises letters

‘s, sh, ch, z, j’

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What is an alliteration?

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Repetition of a particular sound

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What is sensory imagery?

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Language that appeals to senses

‘Clear blue sky’ - happy because it’s sunny

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What is irony?

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The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning ‘The worlds biggest dog was called Tiny’

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What is symbolism?

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Objects or characters representing an idea, concept or event

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What is a hyperbole?

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The use of extravagant exaggeration

‘I am so hungry i could eat a horse!’

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What is personification?

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Giving human qualities to an inanimate object

‘The run down house appeared depressed’

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What is a metaphor?

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Comparison of something to describe it through something in common ‘Love is a rose’

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What is a simile?

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Describing something by comparison that is unlike the reality ‘As white as snow’ - describing someones face

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What is an oxymoron?

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Two contradictory terms next to each other

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What is end rhyme?

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Rhyme at the end of stanza’s

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What is internal rhyme?

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Rhyme within lines

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What is cross rhyme?

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When an internal word rhymes with the end of the next/previous line

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What is sporadic rhyme?

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Rhyming that occurs unpredictably in a poem

Most of poem doesn’t rhyme but then some of it does

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What is a caesura?

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A complete full stop during or at the end of a line, causing a pause.

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What is an enjambment?

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The continuation of one line onto the next without pause

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What is allegory?

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When characters or descriptions convey a hidden symbolic or moral message

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What is antithesis?

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Direct opposites

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What is foreshadowing?

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Making reference to future events

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