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Alliteration

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Repetition of identical consonant sounds.

e.g pick up your pens and proceed

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Allusion

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Unacknowledged reference/quotation author assumes reader will recognise.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a piece/section of work.

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Apostrophe

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Speaker in poem addresses person not present or animal/inanimate object/concept as though a person.

(Milton!)

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Assonance

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Repetition of identical vowel sounds

e.g. deep green sea

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Ballad

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Narrative poem consisting of quatrains (iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter) rhyming a-b-a-b

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Blank Verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter e.g Shakespeare

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Caesura

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Short but definite pause for effect in a line of poetry.(Carpe diem & Short life poetry)

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Carpe Diem

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Seize the day

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Chiasmus (antimetabole)

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Crossing/reversal of 2 elements.

e.g. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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Common meter/hymn measure

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Iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic triameter

e.g. Amazing Grace by John Newton.

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Consonance

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Alliteration of the ‘s’ sound.

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Couplet

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2 successive rhyming lines.

End a Shakespearean sonnet

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Diction

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Level of formality a speaker uses.

Formal/high = proper

Neutral/middle = correct & simple

Informal/low = Relaxed & familiar

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Dramatic monologue

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Addresses internal listener or reader.

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End-stopped line

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Line ending in full pause (full-stop/semicolon)

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Enjambment

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Line running over to next line

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Explication

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Complete & detailed analysis of work of literature, often word-by-word & line-by-line

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Foot (prosody)

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Measured combination of heavy and light stresses.

monometer - 1 foot

dimeter - 2 feet

trimeter - 3 feet

tetrameter - 4 feet

pentameter - 5 feet

hexameter - 6 feet

heptameter/septenary - 7 feet

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Heroic Couplet

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2 successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter

2nd is end-stopped

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Hymn meter/common measure

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Quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter. Rhyming a-b-a-b

22
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Hyperbole

Litote

A

Exaggeration for effect

Understatement for effect

23
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Iambic pentameter

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Unstressed stressed foot

Most natural & common meter in English

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Image

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Triggers mind to fuse together memories of sight, sounds, tastes, smells & sensations of touch.

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Internal rhyme

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Exact rhyme within line of poetry.

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Metaphor

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Saying one thing IS something else

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Metaphysical Conceit

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Elaborate & extended metaphor/simile that links 2 unrelated things.

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Meter

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Number of feet within a line of traditional verse.

e.g iambic pentameter

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Octave

A

First 8 lines of Italian/Petrarchan sonnet

Unified by rhyme, rhyme & topic

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Onomatopoeia

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Word sounds like the sound it is describing.

e.g buzz

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Paradox

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Rhetorical figure embodying a contradiction that is true

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Personification

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Uses human characteristics to describe an inanimate object/animal

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Petrarchan sonnet

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Sonnet that divides into an octave & sestet. There is a change in topic between the two.

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Pyrrhic Foot (prosody)

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2 unstressed feet..

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Refrain

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Repeated seriews of words in response to main verse (ballad)

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Rhyme royal

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Stanza form used by Chaucer. Usually in iambic pentameter with rhyme scheme of ababbcc

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Scan (scansion)

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Process of marking beats in a poem to establish prevailing metrical pattern.

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Sestet

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6 line stanza/unit of poetry

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Shakespearean sonnet

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14 line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of 3 quatrains & a couplet rhyming abab

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Simile

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Saying something is like or as something else

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Stanza

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Paragraph in a poem

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Synaesthesia

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Rhetorical figure describing 1 sensory impression in terms of a different sense.

e.g. green thought

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Syntax

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Word order & sentence structure

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Volta

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Turning point in a Petrarchan sonnet.

45
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Pejorative

Laudatory

A

Negative

Positive

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