War Poetry vocabulary Flashcards
To learn vocabulary (17 cards)
What does propaganda mean?
Information designed to promote a cause.
What does patriotism mean?
Love for one’s country.
What does glorification mean?
The act of describing or representing something as admirable, especially unjustifiably.
What is cynicism?
Scepticism.
What does betrayal mean?
The breaking of trust or loyalty.
What does slaughter mean?
The senseless killing of animals or a group of people.
What is tone?
The general attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation.
What is elegy?
A poem of serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead.
What does desensitization mean?
A process that reduces emotional response to something due to prolonged exposure to it.
What does Armistice mean?
An agreement between opposing armies to stop fighting.
What is connotation?
An implied meaning.
What is enjambment?
A line of verse that flows onto the next line without a pause.
What is allusion?
An indirect or passing reference made in a text.
What is caesura?
A pause during a line of verse.
What is juxtaposition?
Two things placed next to each other with a contrasting effect.
What is metre?
The regular use of unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry.
What is structure?
The way a poem or other piece of writing has been put together.
