War Poetry Key Term Flashcards

(27 cards)

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Simile

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A comparing word between the word like or as

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Metaphor

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Somthing that describes somthing by saying its somthing else

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Cesura

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A break between words for description

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Volta

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A change if scene/emotion in a description

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Extended metaphor

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A metaphor that extends the lines

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Personification

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Saying that somthing that has human characteristics even though is isnt

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Alliteration

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The same letter in the nex word

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Rhythm

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Strong repeated lines if movement or sound

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Rhyme scheme

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A pattern of rhyms at the rnd of each line of a poem or song

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Onomatopoeia

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A formation of words that a sound acossiated witg what is named

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Narrative voice

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The perspective the story is told in

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Propaganda

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False information or misleading nature that is represented by adverts

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Jingoism

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Expressing agressive patriotism

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14
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Futility

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Pointlessness

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Terror

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Extream fear

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Stanza

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A group of lines in poetry

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Verb

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Adjective

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A describing word

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Patriotism

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A person who is in love with there countrey

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Conflict

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A serious dissagreement

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Hyperbole

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A word used for exageration

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Trenches

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Holes dug in a ground during war

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Repitition

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A word that apears more than once

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Enjabment

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A word that is incomplete for expression

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Noun
Place or Thing
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Assonance
repetition of vowels without repetition
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Irony
the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.6