Poetry 4.0 / 5 based on 3 ratings ? English LiteratureGCSEAQA Created by: heidi cartwrightCreated on: 05-11-12 16:45 Alliteration The repetition of consonants in words and phrases. 1 of 25 Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in words and phrases. 2 of 25 Blank verse Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter. 3 of 25 Comedy Nowadays a work which makes us laugh, but used to be work with happy endings. 4 of 25 Compound words Double-barrelled words made by combining two existing, and often unrelated, words. They are often used to condense description. 5 of 25 Connotation The suggestion or implication evoked by a word, phrase or statement. 6 of 25 Couplet Two lines of poetry together. A rhyming couplet is two lines of poetry together which rhyme. 7 of 25 Dialogue Two or more characters speaking to each other. 8 of 25 Dramatic irony The audience of a play is aware of facts that the character(s) are not. 9 of 25 Form The shape or pattern in which a poem is written. 10 of 25 Free verse Poetry which seems to have no set pattern, stanzas of rhyme scheme. 11 of 25 Iambic pentameter A line of poetry made up of ten syllables with alternating light or heavy beats. 12 of 25 Irony Saying one thing but meaning the opposite. 13 of 25 Juxtaposition Putting two things side by side in order to show a relationship between them. 14 of 25 Metaphor A comparison that says one thing is another thing. 15 of 25 Narrative A story; it can be a novel, short story, poem or spoken. 16 of 25 Onomatopoeia Words which describe sounds and also sound like that which they describe. 17 of 25 Oxymoron The linking together of contradictory or opposite words. 18 of 25 Paradox The joining together of ideas or concepts which appear to be contradictory but actually make sense another way. 19 of 25 Parody The style of an author or work is imitated and either matched to a trivial subject or exaggerated for comic purposes. 20 of 25 Prose A piece of continuous writing which is not verse or dialogue. 21 of 25 Quatrain Four line of poetry. 22 of 25 Simile A comparison which uses the words like or as. 23 of 25 Sonnet A poem of fourteen lines written in the iambic pentameter. 24 of 25 Stanza Section of poetry comprising a group of verse lines. 25 of 25
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