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34 Cards in this Set
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Chiasmus |
Repeated words in reverse order (mirror effect) |
Language |
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Enjambement |
Continuation of a sentence over a line without a pause |
Poetry sentence structure |
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Endstop |
Punctuation at end of a line |
Punctuation |
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Pantheism |
Universe is a manifestation of God |
Religious |
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Cosmic Sublime |
Awe at size of universe |
Universe |
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Personification/ anthropomorphism |
Give animal, objects etc human characteristics |
Human |
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Vignette |
Brief evocative description, account or episode |
Brief |
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Prospect poems |
Praises a landscape or place |
Tinternet abbey |
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Blank Verse |
Verse without rhyme in iambic pentameter |
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Free Verse |
No rhyme or regular rhythm |
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Apostrophe |
Poet addresses absent person, Ida or thing. |
Poetry |
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Polyptoton |
Swim, swam, swum |
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Hyperbaton |
Inversion of normal order of words |
Yoda |
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Anaphora |
Repetition of word or phrases at beginning of successive clauses |
Repetition |
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Epistrophe |
Repitition of word at end of successive clauses or sentences |
Repitition |
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Oxymoron |
Figure of speech with contradictory terms |
Contradiction |
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Caesura |
Break in middle of line |
Sentence structure |
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Motif |
Dominant or reoccurring idea |
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Paradox |
Seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may be proved |
Language |
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Modifier/ Intensifier |
Adjective or noun |
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Hyperbolic |
Over the top |
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Hypallage |
Projecting descriptors of themselves into other objects etc |
Transferred epithet |
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Allegory |
Extended metaphor |
Often moral or political |
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Anadiplosis |
Repitition of word/phrase at end of one sentence/line/clause at the beginning of the next |
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Picaresque |
Episodic style of fiction- adventures with rough/dishonest but appealing hero |
Novels |
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Anachronism |
Something/ someone out of their historical or chronological time period |
Eg a sword in modern warfare |
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Asyndeton |
Use of words or phrases in a series connectives such as (and/so) |
I can, I saw, I conquered |
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Dramatic irony |
When the audience knows something other characters in the play do not |
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Consonance |
Words have same consonant sound and different vowels |
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Antithesis |
The direct opposite of something else |
Gertrude to hamlet |
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Pathos |
A quality in a text that arouses feelings of pity or sorrow in the reader/audience |
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Rhetoric |
Language techniques to make speeches or writing more powerful |
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Superlative |
Saying something is the most, least, best or worst form of something |
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Polysyndeton |
Using connectives instead of commas |
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