War Poetry Key Terms Flashcards
(32 cards)
Simile
A comparing word as eg as brave as a lion
Metaphor
Somthing that describes somthing by saying its somthing else
Cesura
A break between words for description
Volta
A change if scene/emotion in a description
Extended metaphor
A metaphor that extends the lines
Personification
Saying that somthing that has human characteristics even though is isnt
Allitiration
The same letter in the nex word
Rhythm
Strong repeated lines if movement or sound
Rhym scheme
A pattern of rhyms at the rnd of each line of a poem or song
Onomatopea
A formation of words that a sound acossiated witg what is named
Narrative voice
The perspective the story is told in
Jingoism
The perspective the story is told in
Futility
Pointlessness
Terror
Extream fear
Stanza
A group of lines in poetry
Verb
A doing word
Adjective
A describing word
Patriotism
A person who is in love with there countrey
Conflict
A serious dissagreement
Hyperbole
A word used for exageration
Trenches
Holes dug in a ground during war
Repitition
A word that apears more than once
Enjambment
A word that is incomplete for expression
Assonance
where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated.
