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34 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Words (close to each other) in a piece of writing that begin with the same sound
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Caesura
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A deliberate pause within a line or a verse that is often created with punctuation
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Antithesis
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Two opposite or contrasting ideas are used in the same sentence or speech
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Assonance
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Repetition of a stressed vowel sound often to reinforce a rhythm or mood
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Conceit
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An extended imgae where several points of comparison are developed within the speech
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Dramatic Irony
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A situation, in a play, when the audience knows something that one or more of the characters do not.
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Blank Verse
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Unrhymed verse where each line has ten syllables
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Homophone
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Word which has the same sound as another but a different meaning
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Hyperbole
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Deliberate use of exaggeration for dramatic effect
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Simile
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Comparison between two things which the writer makes clear by using the words `like` or `as`
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Soliloquy
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When a character is alone on stage, or separated from other characters, and speaks to the audience/himself or herself
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Collocation
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two or more words that are used commonly together e.g love/hate
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Graphology
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Overall appearance of a text (how does it look, images included, use of stanzas, use of paragraphs etc)
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Pragmatics
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Analysing the importance of contextually and socially implied meanings
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Phonology
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Sound of words
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Discourse Structure
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Analyse the fluency, coherence and unity of a text
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Hedge
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A hesistant start to speech
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Pathetic Fallacy
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Setting is used to reflect the mental landscape/mood of a character
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Monologue
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A long speech given by a character to another character expressing their feelings
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Sibilance
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Repetition of the `s` sound in a series of words
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Cliche
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An overused phrase or expression
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Ellipsis
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The deletion of words from a sentence
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Irony
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Saying one thing but meaning another
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Metaphor
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A figure of speech in which one thing is described as another
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Semantics
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The study of linguistic (literal) meaning
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Synonym
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A word which means (almost) the same as another
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Syntax
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The grammatical arrangement of words
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Tone
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The author's or speaker's attitude revealed through speech
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Enjambment
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The running on of a thought of idea from the end of one line to another or between the end of a verse to the start of the next
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Connotation
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An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing
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Denotation
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The explicit or set meaning taken from a word or thing
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Personal Pronouns
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I, you, he, she, we, they
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Demonstratives
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This, that, these, those
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Possessive Pronouns
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Mine, yours, his, hers, theirs
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