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Y9 glossary of literary and poetic terms Flashcards

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What is assonance?

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Assonance is the repitition of similiar vowel sounds

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repitition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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What is a caesura?

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A caesura is a rhytmical pause in a poetic line or sentence. It often occurs in the middle of the line, or sometimes at the begining and at the end

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What is context?

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Context is something that is happening outside the text that affects its meaning

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What is direct address?

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Direct address is when a text talks to us

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What is a dramatic monologue?

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A dramatic monologue is an imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience

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What is end stopping?

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End stopping is when there is a pause at the end of the line, usually a full stop

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What is enjambment?

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Enjambment is when a sentence runs over from one line of verse into the next

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What is form?

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Form is the shape of the poem

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What is free verse?

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Free verse is a poem with no regular rhythm or line length

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What is a hyperbole?

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A hyperbole is the deliberate exaggeration for effect

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What is imagery?

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Imagery is language that describes something with at least one of the five senses

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What is literal languge?

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Literal language means directly what it states

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What is figurative languge?

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Figurative language does not mean directly what it states

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is an image which implies a comparison by stating that someting is the thing it resembles

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What is onomatopoea?

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Onomatopoea is when the words sound like what they mean

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What is personification?

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Personification is describing something non-human as if it has human charateristics

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What is a plosive?

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A plosive a consonant sound that is made by stopping air flow out of the mouth, and then releasing it. The basic plosives in English are t, k and p (voiceless) and d, g and b (voiced)

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What is a refrain?

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A refrain is a recurring phrase or line(s) at the end of each stanza of poetry, like a one line chorus

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What is repetition?

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Repetition in poetry isrepeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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A rhyme scheme is the way rhymes within a poem are organised

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What are rhyming couplets?

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Rhyming couplets are two lines following each other which rhyme

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What is rhythm?

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Rhythm is the arragement of words to from a regular beat through a pattern of stresses

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What is a sibilanace?

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A sibilanace is a fricative consonant sound, in which the tip of the tounge is brought near he roof of the mouth and air is pushed past the tounge to make a hissing sound. In English s, z, sh, zh, (the sound of the s in pleasure)

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What is is a simile?

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A simile is a comarison between two things usng “like” or “as”

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What is a sonnet?

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A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines usualli in iambic pentameter

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Who is the speaker?

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The speaker is the “voice” that is speking to us in a poem written in the first person.

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What is a stanza?

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A stanza is a clearly demacarted part of a poem so another word for verse

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What is structure?

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Structure is how the poet has oorganised their work into patterns

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What is symbol?

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Symbol is something used to stand for or represent something else

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What is tone?

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Tone is the overall feeling or mood of a poem

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