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Ambiguity
Where a word or phrase has two or more possible meanings
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Blank Verse
Poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme
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Colloquial
Sounding like everyday spoken language
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Elegy
A poem wirtten to mourn the death of someone
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Free verse
Poetry that doesn't rhyme and has no regular rhythm
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Iambic trimeter
6 sylabelles - 3 stressed 'tri'
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Iambic terameter
8 syllables/iambs 4 stressed and 4 unstressed
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iambic pentameter
10 syllables 5 stressed
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iambic hexameter
12 syllables 6 stressed
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iambic heptameter
14 syllables 7 stressed
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anaphora
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work or the section of a work.
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caesura
strong pause within a line - found alongside enjambement
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active verb
physical action jump run
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proper noun
name eiffel tower
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abstract noun
tired sadness
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modal verb
might could should must
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biggest, smallest, worst farthest
superlative
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old fashion language
archaic language
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when the audience is aware of something but the character is not
Dramatic irony
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octet
an 8 line verse
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enjambement
run on lines
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Common noun
people or things in general e.g. tower bridge apple boy woman, birth, sadness
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proper noun
identifies a PARTICULAR PERSON PLACE OR THING E.G. india, beyonce, derby, monday
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concrete noun
things that exist physically and can be touched, smelt, heard or seen - coffee, rain, snow, dog, car, bus , beach
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abstract noun
ideas and qualities - love friendship family, truth danger humour
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active verb vs passive verb
beat vs beaten take vs taken
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modal verb
can must should ought would could may i
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adverb
ends in ly or est or er
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personal pronouns
he she i her hi m mine yours they them
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possessive pronouns
mine/hers/ours referred to something that the speaker owns
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Poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme

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Blank Verse

Card 3

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Sounding like everyday spoken language

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Card 4

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A poem wirtten to mourn the death of someone

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Card 5

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Poetry that doesn't rhyme and has no regular rhythm

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