Terminology

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Abstract noun

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names given to ideas or feelings/things which cannot be touched or seen in a concrete way: love, jealousy e.t.c.

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Ambiguity

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where meaning is unclear or has two or more possible meanings

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Alliteration

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repetition of the same consonant sound,especially at the beginning of words: eg stamping stars

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Archaic

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language that is old fashioned and no longer in use

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Assonance

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repetition of similar vowel sounds (aeiou)

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Allegory

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a story or narrative which has a deeper message below the surface

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Anapaestic foot

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consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one: Will’s(stressed) at the dance(stressed) in the club-room below(stressed)

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Bathos

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a sudden descent from the serious to the ridiculous

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Blank verse

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verse without rhyme (unrhymed iambic pentameter)

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Colloquialism

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everyday speech and language

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Concrete nouns

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names given to real objects or things

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Cliches

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overused phrase which as a result loses its impact

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Caesura

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a brief pause in the middle of a line of the poem using punctuation or spaces

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Euphemism

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expression of an unsavoury or unpleasant idea in a more pleasant way

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Emotive language

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use of language to bring a particular emotion in the reader e.g. anger or shock

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Extended metaphor

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a recurrent metaphor which continues throughout the poem

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Enjambment

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a line in a verse that goes into the next line without a pause or a full stop

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Rhyming couplets

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every two lines in a rhyme in a poem

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Sibilance

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strongly emphasized presence of s,ch,sh,j and z sounds

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Simile

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making a description more vivid using a comparison of one thing to another. Similes use the words ‘like’ and ‘as’

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Spondes

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two stressed syllables found in a metric foot

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Specialist language

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language used that belongs to a specialist subject and unknown to those without the knowledge of the subject

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Synaesthesia

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a deliberate confusion of the senses e.g. ‘clear as scent’

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Sonnet

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a poem with only fourteen lines and has ten syllables in each line

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Tone

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establishes the overall mood of the poem

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Trochaic foot

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a poem line that consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable e.g. 'Ty'ger 'Ty'ger 'Bur'ning 'Br'ight (Ty, Bur and bri stressed syllables

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Verbs

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doing words

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Zoomorphism

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using animal imagery to describe something or human character

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Feminine rhyme

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an extra unstressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry: harder, stronger,older 'er' being unstressed

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Free verse

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verse written without a rhyme or rhythm

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Iambic pentameter

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follows a set rhythm of ten syllables in a line, five stressed and unstressed and alternates. e.g: 'farewell' thou 'child' of 'my' right 'hand' and 'joy' ('well') stressed

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Imperatives

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commanding words or phrases

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Irony

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saying one thing while meaning another(like sarcasm but not as blunt and obvious)

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Internal rhyme

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rhyming words within the poem rather than at the end of lines

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Juxtaposition

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deliberate and careful positioning of words in a poem

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Lexical field

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a number of words which all belong to the same topic or subject

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Metaphors

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a comparison of one thing to another | it actually states one thing is another

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Monologue

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an extended and uninterrupted speech of one character

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Near rhyme

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almost a full rhyme but not

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech with words that have opposite meanings | e.g:'beloved sweetheart bastard'

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Onomatopoeia

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words which sound like the thing that they are describing | e.g: crash

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Pronouns

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he,she,her, him | replace proper nouns

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Past tense

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actions in the past

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Personification

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giving an object human characteristics

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Present tense

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actions in the present

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Pun

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wordplay which deliberately creates ambiguity by using words of similar sound for humorous effect