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A-Level English Literature: Pre-1900 Poetry & Feminine Gospels > Glossary > Flashcards

Glossary Flashcards

1
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What is alliteration?

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Repetition of identical consonant sounds

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2
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What is an allusion?

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Unacknowledged reference

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What is an anaphora?

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Repetition of a word or phrase throughout one’s work

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4
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What is assonance?

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Repetition of identical vowel sounds

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5
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What is a ballad?

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A narrative poem composed of quatrains

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What is blank verse?

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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7
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What is caesura?

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Short pause used for effect

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What is a couplet?

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2 successive rhyming lines

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What is diction?

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Level of formality used by a speaker

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What is a dramatic monologue?

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Where a speaker addressed a reader live

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What is enjambment?

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Line ending with no punctuation, running over to the next line

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12
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What is hyperbole?

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Exaggeration for effect

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What is iambic pentameter?

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Line of poetry made up of 5 “iambs”

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14
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What is a metaphor?

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Comparison between two different things

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15
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What is a metaphysical conceit?

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An extended metaphor or simile that links 2 unrelated fields together

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16
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What is an octave?

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First 8 lines of a Italian or Petrarchan sonnet

17
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What is onomatopoeia?

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Blending of sounds that imitates an action

18
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What is a paradox?

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Something or someone having contradictory qualities

19
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What is personification?

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When non-human things gain human characteristics

20
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What is a Petrarchan sonnet?

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A sonnet divided into an octave and sestet

21
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What is a rhyme?

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Repetition of syllables in different words

22
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What is a sestet?

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6 line stanza

23
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What is a Shakespearean sonnet?

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A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter

24
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What is a simile?

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Comparison between two things

25
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What is a sonnet?

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14 lines using iambic pentameter

26
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What is a stanza?

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Poetic lines that form a paragraph

27
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What is syntax?

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Word and sentence structure

28
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What is a volta?

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“Turning” point of a sonnet

A-Level English Literature: Pre-1900 Poetry & Feminine Gospels (10 decks)

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