A deviation from the expected conventions of a text type, for example, a novel beginning in the middle of a story.
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Lexis
A word used unexpectedly for a newly coined word, for example
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Grammar
For example, the layout of a poem, the use of upper and lower case letters, and idiosyncratic representation of an individual word on the page.
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Diphthongs
A vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds – where the speaker moves from one to another
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Plosive
Harsh sounding letters such as b, p, t, d, k, g
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Fricative
Soft sounding letters such as f, v, s, z
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Euphony
Defines a sound that is pleasing to the ear
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Cacophony
Defines a speech sound that is unpleasant to the ear
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Syndetic List
Traditional list with a connective
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Asyndetic List
No connective
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Anaphora
Something that has already been said and is now being referred to as a pronoun
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Synaesthesia
Playing with the senses
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Quatrains
4 lines in a stanza
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Temporal deixis
Concerned with the various times involved, for example, ‘now’, ‘then’, ‘soon’.
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Proximal Deixis
Expressions that refer to concepts, events or people close to the speaker.
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Distal Dexis
Distanced from the speaker
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Deixis
Words that are context based and whose meaning is dependent on who is using them, where and when they are being used.
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Lexical Intensity
The level of description and choices of individual words/phrases all help construct a sense of location in poetry. This is known as lexical intensity: how and to what extent words are modified; the use of semantic fields; the use of sensory language and f
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Homodiegetic narrative
First person (I or We)
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Heterodiegetic narrative
Third person (He / She / They)
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Analepsis
Narrator offering details from an earlier point in time.
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Prolepsis
Details from the future
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A deviation from the expected conventions of a text type, for example, a novel beginning in the middle of a story.
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