Terms

Question 0

Alliteration

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Repetition of the beginning sounds in the words of a phrase. Ex: Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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Allegory

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Characters/depictions that convey a hidden symbolic message. Ex: allegory of a cave

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Allusion

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Implied reference to literary/historical sources. Ex: The Waste Land refers to Shakespeare.

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Anagram

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Rearranging letters to form a new word or sound. Ex: t.s. Eliot and toilets.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines. Ex: my life is my purpose/ my life is my goal/ my life is my inspiration.

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Apostrophe

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Passage addresses to a person or thing that is absent. Ex: person speaking to grave.

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Assonance

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Close repetition of the same vowel sounds. Ex. Try to light the fire.

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Blank Verse

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Has a meter but no rhyme scheme. Ex: The Princess, Tennyson.

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Caesura

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Break in the flow of poetry. Ex: to be or not to be, that is the question.

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Catharsis

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Releasing/ relieving emotions. Ex. Macbeth

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Consonance

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Words sharing the same stressed consonant sounds. Ex: Block and black.

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Dialect verse

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Verses using national/ regional dialects. Ex. Ode to a mouse, Robert burns.

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Didactic verse

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Verses that instruct or educate. Ex: essay on man by pope.

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Euphony

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Use of pleasing sounds in poetry. Ex: cellar door

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Free verse

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Verse without any rhyme scheme or meter. Ex: Walt Whitman ‘after the sea-ship’

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Genre

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A literary style. Ex: romanticism.

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Juvenilia

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A poets immature or early work. Ex: ‘last night with many cares and toils’ Poe

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Kenning

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Compound metaphor. Ex: bone frame.

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Imagery

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Creation if images through metaphors and similes. Ex: daffodils by Wordsworth

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Litotes

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Ironic understatement that confirms something by denying the opposite. Ex: Mecutio when he is hurt.

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Metonymy

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Object that replaces something closely related to it. Ex: crown and monarchy.

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Octave

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Stanza of eight lines. Ex: Milton’s sonnet 19

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Onomatopoeia

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Word which imitate sounds. Ex: Drip drop.

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Oxymoron

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Words which are contradictory. Ex Great Depression.

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Parallelism

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Phrases placed side by side. Ex: Like father, like son.

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Pathos

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Evokes pity or sadness from the reader. Ex: Using the work ‘heartbroken’ rather than sad.

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Pastoral

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Poem about idyllic rural life. Ex. ‘As you like it’ Shakespeare

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Personification

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Inanimate objects are given human characteristics. Ex: the sun smiled over the farm as it set.

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Stanza

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One or more lines making up the basic units of poetry