AQA Poetry Anthology: Love and Relationships

These flashcards help reinforce key poetic devices, themes, and structural elements relevant to the AQA Poetry Anthology.

Pathetic Fallacy

A literary device where nature reflects human emotions, often used to create mood.

Juxtaposition

A technique in poetry where contrasting ideas or images are placed next to one another to highlight differences.

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break in poetry, creating a sense of flow.

Imagery

Descriptive language used to create visual representations of actions, objects, or ideas in readers' minds.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Semantic Field

A set of words or phrases that are related in meaning, conveying a particular concept or theme.

Couplet

Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another, implying a symbolic relationship.

Personification

A literary technique in which human characteristics are attributed to non-human entities.

Quatrain

A stanza of four lines, often with alternating rhymes.

Rhetorical Question

A question posed for effect rather than for an answer, often to provoke thought.

Extended Metaphor

A metaphor that extends over several lines, paragraphs, or throughout an entire work.

Theme

The central topic, subject, or message within a literary work.

Tone

The attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work's central theme or subject.

Ambiguity

The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

Circular Structure

A narrative structure that ends where it begins, suggesting themes of recurrence or inescapability.

Ambitious Vocabulary

Complex and sophisticated words used to elevate the quality of writing.