Vocab for Poetry Belonging and Tone Vocab Flashcards
Identity
Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterise a person or a group
Identity crisis
a period of uncertainty and confusion in which a person’s sense of identity becomes insecure. They might not feel as though they belong.
Nostalgia
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.
Migrant / Immigrant
a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work or better living conditions
Refugee
a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
First Generation (immigrant)
is a person who is not born in a country but moves there
Second Generation (immigrant)
the children of first generation immigrants who are born in the ‘new’ country.
Xenophobia
fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners
Displacement / Displaced
the enforced departure of people from their homes, typically because of war, persecution, or natural disaster
Restorative power of nature
the idea nature is powerful and is healing for people
Prejudice
dislike, hostility, or unjust behaviour deriving from preconceived and unfounded opinions
Sonnet
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.
Free Verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
Refrain
a repeated line in a poem - like a chorus.
Enjambment
movement from one line of poetry to the next without punctuation creating a pause.
● Caesura
a pause created in the middle of a line of poetry - commonly a full stop or semi colon
Cross rhyme
ABAB rhyme scheme - where the rhyming words are not next to each others lines
Rhyming couplets
AA BB CC etc lines next to each other that rhyme.
Pathetic fallacy
where the weather / time of day / time of year reflects the mood created
Natural imagery
using many images from nature
Romantic Period
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).
Biographical Context
Context that links to the writer’s life
Scathing
highly critical of the topic
Uplifting
cheering and positive, makes the reader feel cheerful (like the end of a happy film)
