poetry commentary terminology Flashcards
(51 cards)
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simile
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she looks like a bird, nimble-fingered and light.
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metaphor
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saying something is something else as an analogy
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alliteration
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the repeated letters at the beginning of words
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verb
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adjective
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adverb
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describes a verb eg she spoke quickly
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noun
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stanza
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verse
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free verse
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poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or with no rhyming
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repetition
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personification
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emotive language
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rhyming couplet
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a pair of lines that rhyme
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assonance
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repetition of similar vowel sounds - creates a more musical inflection
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onomatopeia
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sibilance
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’s’ sounds
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enjambment
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continuation of a sentence over lines - slows it down, creates longer sentences, allows emphasis and double meaning eg the perseverence
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sonnet
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romantic - 14 lines
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narrative
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hyperbole
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pathetic fallacy
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pronoun
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symbolism
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pun
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hyperbole
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euphemism
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connotation
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extended metaphor
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oxymoron
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juxtaposition
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iambic pentameter
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caesura
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synonym
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superlative
eg the best
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preposition
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paradox
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litotes
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metonymy
Metonymy is a type of figurative language in which an object or concept is referred to not by its own name, but instead by the name of something closely associated with it. For example, in "Wall Street prefers lower taxes" eg heart for love
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gerund
swimming, loving, cramming, destroying - verbs in the present participle form
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homophone
pronounced the same but differs in meaning eg Goole and Ghoul
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colloquial
informal
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anaphora
the repetition of a word at successive clauses
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antithesis
contrasting two ideas or images - juxtaposing images
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anapaest
The first two syllables are short and unstressed, followed by a third syllable that is long and stressed.
The rhythmic pattern of an anapaest can be represented as “da-da-DUM”.
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epithet
an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned:
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parallelism
sentences have the same grammatical structure
- usually combined with anaphora
- usually combined with antithesis
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extended metaphor
a metaphor that is used throughout an extract
--> creates an analogy through an image
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motif
a repeated theme, idea or image
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imagery
strong description of an image, invoking the senses
(eg warming her pearls uses a lot of tactile imagery)
TYPES
tactile
visual
auditory
olfactory (smell)
gustatory (taste)
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plosive
'p', 'd', 't', 'b' and the hard 'c' sounds - harsher sounds/ creates a shocking or forceful effect in poetry, or creates emphasis
