Consecutive words starting with the same letter/sound
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Allusion
Reference to someone or something outside of the text
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Antithesis
Rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together within a sentence to create a contrasting effect
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Ambiguity
Word, phrase or statement that has more than one meaning
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Antonym
Pairs of words that have opposite meanings
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Assonance
Two or more words close to one another, repeat the same vowel sounds, but start with different consonant sounds (e.g. men sell the wedding bells)
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Asyndetic list
Creates a list using punctuation, most commonly commas
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Blank verse
An un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. Also has no fixed number of lines
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Caesura
Pause within a line of poetry
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Colloquial language
Common language (everyday speech)
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Conceit
Figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together through similes and metaphors
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Connotation
Meaning implied by word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly
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Consonance
Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase (e.g. pitter, patter)
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Denotation
Literal meaning of a word in contrast to it connotative or associated meaning
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Direct speech
Dialogue shown by speech marks
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Dissonance
Deliberate use of impolite or harsh-sound words for effect
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Elegy
Poem done at funerals
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Ellipsis
Used to emit some parts of a sentence or event
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End-stopped line
Line of poetry that ends with a full stop
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Enjambment
When a sentence leads on over more than 1 line
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Extended metaphor
Metaphorical language/ a specific metaphorical theme used throughout the entire poem or an entire stanza
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Eye rhyme
Two words that are spelt similarly but do not actually rhyme
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First person
'I' - perspective of author or main character 'we' - first person plural
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Fricative
Consonant made through gaps in teeth (f,v etc.) made for a harsh effect
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Fronted conjunction
Conjuction at the start of a sentence
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Half rhyme
Two words that don't have same rhyming letters but still sound to rhyme (straw, poor)
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Homophone
Words that, when pronounced, sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning (e.g. bare,bear)
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Homonym
Consists of homophones and homographs. Homophones - words that, when pronounced, sound the same but have different spelling and meaning Homographs - same spelling but different meanings
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Iambic pentameter
Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (rhythm like 5 heartbeats) Uses 10 syllables in each line
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Idiom
Well-known phrase
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in media res
Starting in the middle of actions/narrating a story from the middle
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Internal rhyme
Rhyming couplet within one line of poetry
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Intertextuality
Makes use of a textual reference from another book or poem (etc. within a writers own work)
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Irony
Words that are used to imply that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the word
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Allusion
Back
Reference to someone or something outside of the text
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