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Caesura

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Punctuation in the middle of a line (poetry)

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Assonance

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Half rhyme/similar vowel sounds

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Sibillance

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Alliteration using ‘s’

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Metaphor

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Saying something is something that it’s not

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that sounds like the word it’s describing (e.g. bang, pop, crash)

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Imagery

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Describing something in great detail (painting an image in your head)

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Simile

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Saying something is ‘as’ or ‘like’ something else

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Theme

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Main subject to focus on

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Personification

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Giving an object person like qualities

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Enjambment

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When a line carries over multiple lines (poetry)

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Alliteration

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The starting letters are the same

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Rhythm

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Matching syllables in a line

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Rhyme

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When words sound similar

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Repetition/refrain

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Repeating a word or phrase

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Stanza

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A paragraph in a poem

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Foreshadowing

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When something in the plot gives away something that may happen later on

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Derogatory language

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Offensive language that is used to cause offence

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Eulogy

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A speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially one who recently died (may be given at a funeral)

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Platonic love

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An affectionate relationship which the sexual element does not enter

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something that the characters do not (a form of irony)

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Irony

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The use of words to convey a meaning that is quite the opposite of its literal meaning

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Iambic pentameter

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10 beats per line

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Sonnet

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14 lines long with 10 syllables per line (usually relates to love and romance) - poetry

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Ambiguous language

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Describes a speech that doesn’t have a singular meaning but represents different ideas, objects or individuals

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Idiomatic expression

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A type of informal language that has a meaning different from the meaning of the words in the expression, for example, hold your tongue.

This idiom doesn’t actually mean that you should stick your fingers in your mouth and grab a hold of your tongue but instead means to be quiet.

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Pathetic fallacy

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Where the author attributes human emotions and traits to nature (weather) or inanimate objects

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Tricolon

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Another word for the rule of 3

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Assonance

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Repeated vowel sounds in words

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Anaphora

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A phrase/word repeated at the start of each line or sentence

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Sibilance

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Repeating the ‘s’ sound at the start of words

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Volta

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A change in atmosphere or mood

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Juxtaposition

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Two things being seen or placed close together in order to contrast them

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Oxymoron

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Two contrasting words next to each other, for example, living dead

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How to be persuasive (9)

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PERSUADER

  1. Personal pronouns
  2. Exaggeration
  3. Rhetorical questions
  4. Statistics/facts
  5. Use of authority
  6. Alitteration/anecdotes
  7. Description
  8. Emotive language
  9. Repetition
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How to be creative (7)

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AAAMOPS

  1. Adjectives
  2. Adverbs
  3. Alliteration
  4. Metaphors
  5. Onomatopoeia
  6. Personification/pathetic fallacy
  7. Similes
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Celestial imagery

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Imagery about the stars, sun, moon and space

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Novella

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A ghost story

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Morality tale

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The main character has to learn a lesson

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Purgatory

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Being caught inbetween both worlds (living hell)

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Character foil

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Another character who highlights the qualities of the main character (e.g. opposing characteristics to exaggerate the other characters qualities)

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Omniscient narrator

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All seeing/all knowing

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Epithet

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An adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned (e.g. fair Juliet)

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Asyndetic list

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A list with no connectives, usually just commas

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society (e.g. Scrooge)

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Antagonist

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Villain / enemy (e.g. Scrooge)

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Allegory

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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one - synonyms: symbol, metaphor, analogy (e.g. Scrooge is an allegory of the rich and privileged in Victorian society)

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Didactic

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

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Verse

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Looks like poetry - shows status (used by Shakespeare)

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Prose

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Looks like a paragraph - low status (used by Shakespeare)

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Blank verse

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Not rhyming iambic pentameter

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Untimely

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Means early

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Shared lines

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10 beats per line are shared between two characters - shows a closeness or urgency

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Hypophora

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Answering your own question

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Monosyllabic

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Each word has one syllable

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Premonition

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A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.

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Foreboding

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A feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.

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Semantic field

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A set of words grouped semantically that refers to a specific subject (e.g. semantic field of fear, war, love, hate, sewing)

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