language levels for Duffy Poetry

Question 1

acronym

Answer 1

an abbreviation formed from the initial letter of words and pronounced as a word

Question 2

anaphora

Answer 2

repetition of a word at the beginning of successive lines or clauses

Question 3

antithesis

Answer 3

person/thing that is the direct opposite of something else

Question 4

alliteration

Answer 4

word beginning with the same sound close to another

Question 5

assonance

Answer 5

resemblance sound between syllables of nearby words

Question 6

ballad

Answer 6

narrating a story in short stanzas

Question 7

blank verse

Answer 7

verse without rhyme

Question 8

caesura

Answer 8

pause

Question 9

cyclical structure

Answer 9

returning to the idea of the first stanza in the last stanza

Question 10

enjambment

Answer 10

phrases that carry on without a major pause

Question 11

free verse

Answer 11

lacks rhyme scheme or regular meter

Question 12

hyperbole

Answer 12

exageration

Question 13

monosyllabic

Answer 13

word that consists of one syllable

Question 14

quatrain

Answer 14

stanza with only four lines

Question 15

octave

Answer 15

poem of 8 stanzas with 8 lines each

Question 16

linear

Answer 16

text runs chronologic

Question 17

imperative sentence

Answer 17

sentence that issues a command

Question 18

plosives

Answer 18

hard stop lines (P, T, D and B)

Question 19

spatial marker

Answer 19

indicates relative position, example “she hang the chandelier over the table”

Question 20

lexis

Answer 20

words combined throughout a text for a meaning

Question 21

synthetic pair

Answer 21

words connected by a conjunction

Question 22

deixis

Answer 22

words/ phrases to refer a specific time, place or person

Question 23

asynthetic list

Answer 23

“live,laugh,love” words connected without a conjunction

Question 24

pentameter

Answer 24

a poetic meter containing five feet (10 syllabes)

Question 25

volta

Answer 25

turning point

Question 26

verb

Answer 26

“run”

Question 27

adverb

Answer 27

word that modifies a verb

Question 28

superlative

Answer 28

exageration

Question 29

contractions

Answer 29

shortenning a word ( they are - they’re)

Question 30

false start

Answer 30

when a speaker goes back on what they are saying

Question 31

endophoric

Answer 31

word or expression refers to sum in the same text

Question 32

foreshadowing

Answer 32

hint of what will come later in the story

Question 33

exophoric

Answer 33

sum that relies on context to be understood

Question 34

preposition

Answer 34

group of words used b4 a noun (in, at, on)

Question 35

conjunction

Answer 35

and, but, if

Question 36

premodifier

Answer 36

‘loud’ in ‘loud noise’

Question 37

semantic lexis

Answer 37

a word that have many meaning and it needs context to be understood

Question 38

zoomorphism

Answer 38

given human characteristics to animals

Question 39

intertextuality

Answer 39

text being referred to another

Question 40

asynchronus

Answer 40

sum runs simultaneously

Question 41

synchronous

Answer 41

one has to happen so the other thing can happen

Question 42

simile

Answer 42

‘as’ ‘like’

Question 43

noun

Answer 43

person, thing or object

Question 44

declarative

Answer 44

statement that states a fact

Question 45

neologism

Answer 45

newly formed words

Question 46

homodiegetic

Answer 46

story teller is active in the story

Question 47

graphology

Answer 47

way words and letter are written can define something

Question 48

modal verb

Answer 48

show possibility ‘maybe’

Question 49

gustatory imagery

Answer 49

imagery that describes things we can taste

Question 50

cacophony

Answer 50

harsh sounds

Question 51

personification

Answer 51

inanimate objects given an human like characteristics

Question 52

holophrases

Answer 52

a word used to express a bigger idea