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Contemporary
belonging to or occuring in the present.
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Annotate
To make notes around a text or poem
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Dramatic monologue
a poem in the form of a speech or narrative
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Chronological
In time order
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Context
The historical and social background of a text
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Assonance
When the same vowel sound is repeated but the constanants are different: sonnet and porridge.
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Colloquial
Language that is used in speech with an informal meaning: 'chill' 'out of this world'
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Dialect
The version of language spoken by particular people in a particular area.
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Dialogue
Conversation between two or more people
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Enjambment
used in poetry. Where a sentence continues beyond the end of a line or verse.
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Hyperbole
Exaggeration
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Imagery
Similes, metaphors and personificstion.
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Metaphor
A word or phrase used to imply figuratively, not literally, resemblance.
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Monologue
A speech
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Onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the noise it's describing
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Oxymoron
Where two words not normally associated are brought together: bitter sweet
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Pathos
Language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow
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Personification
Atributing a human quality to a thing or idea.
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Simile
A phrase which establishes similarity between two things.
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Tone
The writers tone or voice or atmosphere or feeling that pervades the text
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Atmosphere
the mood produced
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Couplet
A pair of successive lines of verse, same length
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Rhyming Couplet
A pair of successive lines that rhyme
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Sonnet
a poem of 14 lines
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Ambiguity
Use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two meanings
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Colloquial
Ordinary, everyday speech and language
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Diction
The choice of words a write uses
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Empathy
A feeling on the part of the reader of sharing the particular experince
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Genre
A Particular type of writing
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Satire
Ridiculing, mocking
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Stanza
The blocks of lines into which a poem is divided
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Structure
The way a piece of text has been put together
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Syntax
The way that sentances are structured.
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To make notes around a text or poem

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Annotate

Card 3

Front

a poem in the form of a speech or narrative

Back

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Card 4

Front

In time order

Back

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Card 5

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The historical and social background of a text

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