English Literature - Unit 2 - Unseen Poetry - Glossary

Glossary

• Ambiguity - Where a word or phrase has two or more possible meanings
  Ballad - A form of poetry that tells a story and can often be set to music
  Blank Verse - Poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme
• Colloquial - Sounding like everyday spoken language
  Dialect - A varitation of language. People from different places or backgrounds might use different words or sentence constructions. E.g. "wee" instead of "small…