Vocab for Poetry Belonging and Tone Vocab Flashcards

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Identity

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Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterise a person or a group

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Identity crisis

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a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure. They might not feel as though they belong.

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Nostalgia

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a happy and sad feeling combined. Happy for the memories of the past to have happened but sad that you cannot ever recapture, relive or return to those memories.

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Migrant / Immigrant

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a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions

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Refugee

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a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

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First Generation (immigrant)

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is a person who is not born in a country but moves there

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Second Generation (immigrant)

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the children of first generation immigrants who are born in the ‘new’ country.

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Xenophobia

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fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners

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Displacement / Displaced

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the enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster

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Restorative power of nature

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the idea nature is powerful and is healing for people

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Prejudice

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dislike, hostility, or unjust behaviour deriving from preconceived and unfounded opinions

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Sonnet

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a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. Typically a love poem.

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Free Verse

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.

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Refrain

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a repeated line in a poem - like a chorus.

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Enjambment

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movement from one line of poetry to the next without punctuation creating a pause.

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● Caesura

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a pause created in the middle of a line of poetry - commonly a full stop or semi colon

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Cross rhyme

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ABAB rhyme scheme - where the rhyming words are not next to each others lines

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Rhyming couplets

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AA BB CC etc lines next to each other that rhyme.

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Pathetic fallacy

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where the weather / time of day / time of year reflects the mood created

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Natural imagery

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using many images from nature

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Romantic Period

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A poetic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that turned toward nature (and celebrated the power and beauty of nature) and the interior world of feeling (putting importance on experience, feelings and imagination).

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Biographical Context

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Context that links to the writer’s life

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Scathing

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highly critical of the topic

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Uplifting

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cheering and positive, makes the reader feel cheerful (like the end of a happy film)

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Sincere / Earnest

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honest and from the heart

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Admiring

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positive and liking aspects of a thing. EG she admired the essay.

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Frustrated

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cross and annoyed, not as extreme as angry or vexed

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Compassionate

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emotionally considerate

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Vexed / irate

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highly angry

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Unsettled

Effect on reader vocab

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made to feel uncomfortable about the topic

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Disturbed / perturbed

Effect on reader vocab

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feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty

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Disgusted

Effect on reader vocab

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filled with disgust

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Sympathetic

Effect on reader vocab

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feeling sorry for someone / something without personal experience of it

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Empathetic

Effect on reader vocab

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feeling sorry for someone / something because of your personal experience of it

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Intrigued

Effect on reader vocab

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interested and want to know more about a topic

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Anxious

Effect on reader vocab

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worried or concerned

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Surprised

Effect on reader vocab

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mild shock at at unknown even or feature

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Suspicious

Effect on reader vocab

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doubtful and potentially not believing the truth of the situation

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The reader may…

Effect on reader vocab

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admire/imagine/question/interrogate

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The reader might be apprehensive…

Effect on reader vocab

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fearful or anxious about the future

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The reader’s (what is gupta’s main intention)

Effect on reader vocab

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previous assumptions might be challenged because…

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The reader would (for righteous characters)

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champion the writer’s view as…

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The reader would (for the evil characters)

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condemn…