Linguistic devices

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Run on lines
enjambment
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A unit of poetic meter containing four feet
Tetrameter
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a poem of 14 lines, divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet, written in iambic pentameter
Shakespearean sonnet
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a mid-line pause
caesura
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A mood used to express a statement
declarative mood
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A mood expressing a question
interrogative mood
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The patterning of pairs and sounds, words or structures to create a sense of balance
Parrelelism
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A group of words usually with a finite verb, which is structurally larger than a phrase
Clause
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A sentence made up of one main or one or more subordinate or dependent clauses
Complex sentance
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A change in the structure or the sentence to place emphasis on an opening sentence element
foregrounding
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A change in the structure of the sentance to place emphasis on an opening sentence element
End-Focus
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The omission of part of a sentence which can nevertheless be understood from the context
Ellipsis
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The omission of co-ordinating conjunctions as a feature of rhetorical style
Asyndetic listing
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using conjunctions to join clauses
Syndetic listing
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To place two or more things side by side
Juxtaposition
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The use of contradictory words in a phrase
oxymoron
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A name for everyday objects
Concrete noun
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A name of a distinctive person, place or other unique reference
Proper noun
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A name to desribe things that have no physical qualities
Abstract noun
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A name that refers to a group of people, animals or things
Collective Noun
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Words that express states, actions or processes
Verb
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A verb that expresses an action rather than a state
Dynamic verb
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verbs that express states of being or processes
Stative verb
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A verb that precedes another verb
Auxiliary verb
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A word that modifies verbs,adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and prepositions
Adverb
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A word that replaces a noun
Pronoun
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Indefinite article
A
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Definate article
The
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A group of words joined by similarities
Lexical set
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The associations attached to a word in addition to its dictionary definition
Connotations
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Exaggeration used to heighten feeling and intensity
Hyberbole
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A word that's no longer in use
Archaisms
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a description which does not compare one thing to another but actually becomes the other eg the trees danced in the wind
Metaphor
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Repitition of the same or similar vowel sounds
Assonance
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A unit of poetic meter containing four feet

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Tetrameter

Card 3

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a poem of 14 lines, divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet, written in iambic pentameter

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Card 4

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a mid-line pause

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Card 5

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A mood used to express a statement

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