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Asyndetic listing

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Listing with commas

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Syndetic listing

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Listing with “and”

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symbolism

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objects, colours, sounds and places that work as a symbol

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pathetic fallacy

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tone/ mood created through descriptions of nature/ weather

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Motif

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Recurrent image, sound, action that has symbolic significance

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tone/ mood/ atmosphere

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General feelings/ impressions you get from a text

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Types of languages (two)

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Sensory
Emotive

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Superlative

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Highest kind of class of word

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Sounding literary terms

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Onomatopoeia
Assonance

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Onomatopoeia

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Clash! Zoom

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds
Shot a cool, foolish look across the room

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Irony/ dramatic irony

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  • Says one thing…means other
  • When audience of play know crucial information characters don’t
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Rhythm

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Term describing the pattern of stressed/ unstressed syllables

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Sonnet

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  • Short poem
  • Often on the subject of love
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Syllables and types (two)

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Smallest unit of speech.
Monosyllables= contain one syllable. “dog” “big” “shoes”
Polysyllables= contain more than one syllable

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Conjunction

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Word used to connect words

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Satire

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Literary stle that ridicules human vice/ folly

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Tercet

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Poem containing three lines

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Allegory

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Can be viewed as extended metaphors. Slightly shorter ones can be referred to as fables

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Caesura

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Pause within a line of poetry, gives poet opportunity to vary the meter. Can be comma

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Consonance

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Repetition of similar sounding consonants

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Dramatic monologue

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Single speaker, addresses his her audience

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Motif

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Recurring image/ idea in body of work

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Pathetic Fallacy

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Process of using weather/ external features to represent world of mankind

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anaphora

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context

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denoument

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exposition

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lexical sets

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oxymoron

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phonology

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soliloquy

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symbolism

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