War Poetry Key Term Flashcards

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Simile

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A comparing word between the word like or as

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Metaphor

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Somthing that describes somthing by saying its somthing else

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Cesura

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A break between words for description

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4
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Volta

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A change if scene/emotion in a description

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5
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Extended metaphor

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A metaphor that extends the lines

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6
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Personification

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Saying that somthing that has human characteristics even though is isnt

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Alliteration

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The same letter in the nex word

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Rhythm

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Strong repeated lines if movement or sound

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Rhyme scheme

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A pattern of rhyms at the rnd of each line of a poem or song

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Onomatopoeia

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A formation of words that a sound acossiated witg what is named

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11
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Narrative voice

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The perspective the story is told in

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12
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Propaganda

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False information or misleading nature that is represented by adverts

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13
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Jingoism

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Expressing agressive patriotism

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14
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Futility

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Pointlessness

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15
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Terror

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Extream fear

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16
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Stanza

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A group of lines in poetry

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Verb

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A doing word

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Adjective

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A describing word

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Patriotism

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A person who is in love with there countrey

20
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Conflict

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A serious dissagreement

21
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Hyperbole

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A word used for exageration

22
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Trenches

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Holes dug in a ground during war

23
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Repitition

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A word that apears more than once

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Enjabment

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A word that is incomplete for expression

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Noun

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Place or Thing

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Assonance

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repetition of vowels without repetition

27
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Irony

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the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.6