Poetry Flashcards
Themes
- Identity
- Dual hybridity
- Tūrangawaewae
- Connection to nature
Figurative Language (3)
Similes, Metaphors, and personification
Sound Devices (4)
Assonance, alliteration, sibilance, and onomatopeia
Structural elements (4)
Parallelism, repetition, rhetorical question, and listing
Sentence forms (3)
Simple, Compound, and complex
Maori and Pacifica word use
For cultural connections and embeds the text in NZ or pacific context
Neologism
Made up words
Euphemism
Sugar coating
Endstopping
Full stop at the end of a line of poetry
Caesura
Full stop in the middle of a line of poetry
Enjambment
Lines of poetry flow into one another
Tone
Feelings, emotions, mood
Sentence types
declarative, exclamatory, imperative, and interrogatory
Aotearoa
New Zealand
Pakehe
European Descent
Papatuanuku
Earth mother
Wahine
Female
Whakapapa
lineage
Mamae
Hurt
Whare
House
Tupuna
Grandparents
Maunga
Mountain
Tapu
Sacred