Terms Flashcards

(40 cards)

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AO1

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personal responses, concepts, terminology, coherent, written expression

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AO2

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analyse

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AO3

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understanding, significance of contexts when written and received

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AO4

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connections

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AO5

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different interpretations

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allegory

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narrative that uses plot, characters or setting to stand for message with larger moral lesson

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allusion

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implied or indirect reference to person/event/thing/part of another text

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ambiguity

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aspects of plot line which are not clear, can be interpreted in different ways

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archaic

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language that is considered outdated, old fashioned

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conceit

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extended metaphor

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diction

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linguistic choices writer makes to effectively convey idea, pov, story, set tone, impact reader

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didactic

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meant to teach or instruct something

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mock-heroic

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imitation of heroic writing to satirise subject not heroic

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narrative stance

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sense reader gets of writers perspective on topic conveyed through their writing

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octave

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group of 8 lines

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pathos

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persuade audience by purposefully evoking certain emotions to manipulate feelings

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pun

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figure it speech, plays with words, multiple meanings

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sonnet

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14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, 10 syllable per line

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syntax

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arrangement of words, phrases, clauses in sentence to make them sound more meaningful

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antithesis

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-setting one word or idea against another
-eg. more haste, less speed

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apostrophe

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-an address to something inanimate as if it were a living person
-eg. cruel north of wind!

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assonance

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-repetition of vowel sounds
-eg. Ceaseless turmoil seething

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Bathos

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-an anti climax
-I came, I saw- I ran away

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End- Stopped Line

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  • a line in poetry where the sentence pauses naturally at the end of the line (opposite of enjambment)
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euphemism
-form of understatement where pleasant terms are used to describe an unpleasant fact -eg. he passed away yesterday
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Elegy
-expression or bereavement
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epic
a long work that concerns a hero acting out a country’s history
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Leonine rhyme
-internal line within a line of poetry -eg. with throats unslaked, with black lips baked
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irony
-contrast between what is expected and what really happens
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oxymoron
-combines words with opposite meaning to create absurd phrase that makes sense only in context
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paradox
-statment or idea that seem contradictory however convey deeper meaning
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parody
-creative word that imitates style of writers for purpose of comedic affect
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metonymy
a symbol that comes to represent something
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synecdoche
-part of something used to represent a whole -eg. all hands on deck
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eye rhyme
words that look like they should rhyme, but dont
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ode
an address to one subject that adopts an elevated manner
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pastoral
rural poem often writing as shepard or countryman extolling ideal world of countryside
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rhyme royal
poem 7 stanzas ABABBCC
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petrarchan sonnet
-octave ABBAABBA -followed by sestet CDCDCD
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shakespearean sonnet
-3 sections, f 4 ABAB followed by rhyming couplet