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Language and Structural Devices Flashcards

Includes poetic and literary

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What is alliteration?

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Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in close proximity to each other (plosive for p, fricative for f)

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What is ambiguity?

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When something has two or more possible meanings

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What is assonance?

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Repetition of the same vowel sound

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What is anaphora?

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Repetition of the first word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or stanzas

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What is anastrophe?

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Where the normal word order of a phrase is reversed

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What is anadiplosis?

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The repetition of the word from the end of one sentence to the start of the next, e.g. ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering’

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What is anthropomorphism

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Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object

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What is antithesis?

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When opposites are placed next to each other for effect, e.g. ‘merry and tragical’

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What is bathos?

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The descent of a serious tone to a commonplace and maybe funny tone in a story

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What is a caesura?

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A deliberate pause within a line of poetry, e.g ‘To err is human; to forgive, divine’

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What is a cataphoric reference?

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A pronoun which is mentioned before the noun to which it refers, e.g. ‘Where it began, I do not know’

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What is colloquial language?

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Ordinary, everyday language

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What is a connotation?

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Association evoked by a word, e.g. ‘rosy’ suggests warm and healthy

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What is consonance?

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Repetition of the same consonant sound in the middle or at the end of words that are near each other, e.g. ‘silent to village wells’

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What is the difference between direct and indirect (reported) speech?

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  • Direct is the the reporting of speech by repeating the actual words of a speaker
  • Indirect is the talking about past speech where tense and words are changed, e.g. ‘He said that I should come with him’
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What’s the difference between declarative, interrogative and imperative sentences?

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  • Declarative is a statement
  • Interrogative is a question
  • Imperative is a command

Exclamatory is declarative which portrays strong emotion

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What are dynamic verbs?

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Verbs which show continued or progressive action done by the subject, e.g. ‘Jack is hitting the road’

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What is a dysphemism?

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When an unpleasant word is intentionally used

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What is ecphonesis?

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An emotional or exlamatory phrase, a common example is the letter ‘O’

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What is emotive language?

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Something that makes you feel a particular emotion

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What is end-stopping?

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

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What is enjambment?

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

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What is a euphemism?

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An indirect term for something upsetting or offensive

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What is an extended metaphor?

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When a metaphor continues across multiple lines/paragraphs, e.g ‘The classroom was a warzone. In a counter-offensive, Jenkins fought his way through a regiment of blotting paper missiles’

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What is an eye rhyme?

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Words with similar spellings but different sounds, e.g. ‘love’ and ‘move’

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What is a feminine ending?

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A line of poetry that ends on an unstressed syllable

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What are half rhymes?

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Words that have a similar, but not identical, end sound, e.g ‘shade’ and ‘said’

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What is a homophone?

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A word that sounds the same as another but has a different spelling or meaning, e.g ‘poor’ and ‘paw’

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What is a hyperbole?

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An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally

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What is hypophora?

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When a question is asked and then answered immeadiately after, e.g. ‘What is the meaning of life? Money, of course’

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What is imagery?

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Descriptive language that builds up a particular picture, usually in the form of a simile or metaphor

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What is imagery?

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Descriptive language that builds up a particular picture, usually in the form of a simile or metaphor

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What is an internal rhyme?

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When two words rhyme in the same line, e.g ‘It is underneath the coppice and heath’

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What is a juxtaposition?

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Placing two things next to eachother to highlight the contrast between them

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What is lexical choice?

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The poets deliberate choice of words

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What is a litote?

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An understatement - opposite of hyperbole

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What is a masculine ending?

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A line of poetry which ends on a stressed syllable

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What is a metaphor?

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Describing one thing as something else, e.g. ‘the fire of thine eyes’

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What are monosyllabic words?

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Words with only one syllable (obviously)

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What is the mood of a poem?

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The feel or atmosphere

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What is neologism

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The creation of a new word in a poem

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What is objective correlative?

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An external equivalent for an internal state of mind, e.g. when the weather reflects the mood of a character

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What is an octave?

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The first 8 lines of a Petrarchan sonnet

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What is an onomatopoeia?

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A word that sounds like the thing it describes, e.g. ‘smashed’ or ‘click’

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What is an oxymoron?

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A phrase that seems to contradict itself, e.g. ‘sweet poison’

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What is pathetic fallacy?

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Like personification, the attribution of human qualities or feelings to an inanimate object when those are particularily appropriate to the situation, e.g. ‘The sun smiled down on my wedding day’

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What is personification

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Describing a non-living thing as if it has human thoughts or feelings or behaves in a human way

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What is pleonasm?

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Redundant, ineffective repetition in a sentence, e.g. ‘Exact replica’

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What is polyptoton?

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The reptition of words derived from the same root (e.g. strength and strong)

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What is a polysyballic word?

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A word with multiple syllables

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What is a pun?

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A word with a double meaning used for humorous effect

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What is a quatrain?

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A four-line stanza

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What is a refrain?

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A line or stanza in a poem which is repeated

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What is the ryhme scheme?

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The pattern of rhyming words in a poem

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What is a rhyming couplet?

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A pair of rhyming lines that are next to eachother

56
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What is the rule of three/tricolon?

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When three similar words/clauses are used in a lost for effect

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What is rhythm?

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A pattern of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

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What is a sestet?

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The last six lines of a Petrachan sonnet

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What is sibilance?

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Alliteration of ‘s’ and ‘sh’ sounds

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What is a similie?

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A way of describing something by comparing it so something else, usually by the word ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g ‘When the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized on a table’

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What is a slant rhyme?

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A rhyme where the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the preceding vowel sounds, e.g ‘sun and noon’

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem. Stanzas can also be called verses

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What are stative verbs?

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Verbs which express a state rather then an actions, e.g. ‘Jacky dislikes his new job’

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What is the structure of a poem?

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The order and arrangement of ideas and events in a poem

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What is symbolism?

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When an object represents ideas more than itself

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What is synaesthesia?

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Evoking one kind of sensory experience with another, e.g. ‘scarlet pain’ or ‘perfume light’

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What is a synecdoche?

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The substitution of part of an object for the whole, e.g. ‘all hands on deck’

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What is syntax?

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The grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence

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What is a temporal marker?

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Phrases which mark the passage of time, e.g. ‘In 1812’

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What is the tone of a poem?

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The emotional aspect of the voice of the poem, e.g sarcastic, melancholy, happy

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What is a volta?

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  • The ‘turning point’ in a poem when there is a shift in mood, tone or pace
  • Can specifically refer to the turning point between octave and the sestet in a Petrachan sonnet
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What is zoomorphism?

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Attributing animal characteristics to a human

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What is a simple sentence?

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A subject which contains a subject and a verb, but nothing else

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What is a compound sentence?

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A sentence which contains two or more independant clauses joined by a conjuction, e.g. ‘John walked to the store and his mother watched him leave’

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What is a complex sentence?

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A sentence which contains an independant clause and a dependant clause, e.g. ‘When I left my home and family, I was no more than a boy’

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What is a minor sentence?

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An incomplete sentence that is not fully formed, e.g ‘Hey!’

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