poetry terminology Flashcards
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caesura
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a mid line pause
2
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enjambment
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run on lines
3
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Euphony
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A speech sound that is pleasing to the ear (alliteration, assonance and rhyme)
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Cacophony
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Speech this is unpleasant to the ear
5
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Lexical intensity
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Language used to create a strong sense of vividness (semantic field)
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Synaesthesia
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Description of a sense in terms of another sense e.g loud perfume
7
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Assonance
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Repeated vowel sounds
8
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Sibilants
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Repeated s sounds
9
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Zeitgeist
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the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
10
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Synaesthesia
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Blending of the senses
11
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Noun
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A noun is generally defined as a person, place, or thing
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Verb
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verb is a word that describes action or a state of being.
13
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Adverb
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Describes a verb e.g. sang loudly
