english key words

Question 1

Auto-biographical

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A poem that’s written about the poets life

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Ballad

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song

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Blank verse

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a verse with no rhyme with usual ten syllables

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Dramatic monologue

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A character speaks to the reader

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first person

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Poem written from the authors POV using “i”

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Epic poem

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Tragic/heroic story poems

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Free Verse

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No regular rhyme/rhythm

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Lyrical

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Emotional and beautiful

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Narrative

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A form of poetry that tells a story

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Ode

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Lyrical poem often addressed to one person.

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Rhetoric

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Persuasive

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Sonnet

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14 line poem often to do with love

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Third person

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A detached perspective (someone who isn’t directly involved in the action) explains everything that is happening.

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Anaphora

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A device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighbouring sentences.

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of poetry.

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Enjambment

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A thought or sense, phrase or clause, in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line.

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Epistrophe

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A device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the ends of the clauses or sentences.

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Juxtaposition

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The act of placing two things side by side for comparison.

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Quatrain

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A set of four lines.

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Rhyme

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Close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of writing.

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Stanza

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A stanza is a division of four or more lines in a poem.

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Volta

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The turning point of a poem.

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Abstract

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An idea rather than a real thing.

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Assonance

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Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants

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Authentic

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Seems genuine or truthful

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Colloquial Language

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Informal, casual language

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Emotive Language

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Language used to make you feel a specific emotion.

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Euphemism

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Alternative words to make something nasty sound less harsh or blunt.

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Extended Metaphor

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Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Question 31

Imagery

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Descriptive or figurative language.

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Irony

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A device or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Metaphor

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A way of comparing by saying something is something else, even though it isn’t,

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Mood

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Another word for atmosphere.

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Onomatopoeia

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

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Personification

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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Plosive

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A consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air.

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Rhetorical Question

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A question that does not have an answer.

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Semantic field

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Groups/categories of words

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Sibilance

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Sibilance is a more specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a hissing sound in the writing.

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Simile

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Comparing something using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

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Symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

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Tone/Voice

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Attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience.

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words