Terms Flashcards
(40 cards)
AO1
personal responses, concepts, terminology, coherent, written expression
AO2
analyse
AO3
understanding, significance of contexts when written and received
AO4
connections
AO5
different interpretations
allegory
narrative that uses plot, characters or setting to stand for message with larger moral lesson
allusion
implied or indirect reference to person/event/thing/part of another text
ambiguity
aspects of plot line which are not clear, can be interpreted in different ways
archaic
language that is considered outdated, old fashioned
conceit
extended metaphor
diction
linguistic choices writer makes to effectively convey idea, pov, story, set tone, impact reader
didactic
meant to teach or instruct something
mock-heroic
imitation of heroic writing to satirise subject not heroic
narrative stance
sense reader gets of writers perspective on topic conveyed through their writing
octave
group of 8 lines
pathos
persuade audience by purposefully evoking certain emotions to manipulate feelings
pun
figure it speech, plays with words, multiple meanings
sonnet
14 line poem, fixed rhyme scheme, 10 syllable per line
syntax
arrangement of words, phrases, clauses in sentence to make them sound more meaningful
antithesis
-setting one word or idea against another
-eg. more haste, less speed
apostrophe
-an address to something inanimate as if it were a living person
-eg. cruel north of wind!
assonance
-repetition of vowel sounds
-eg. Ceaseless turmoil seething
Bathos
-an anti climax
-I came, I saw- I ran away
End- Stopped Line
- a line in poetry where the sentence pauses naturally at the end of the line (opposite of enjambment)