Key words - english language

Alliteration

Starting words with the same letter

Anaphora (anna-for-ah)

repeated words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences

Apostrophes

Punctuation that shows missing letters or possession

Caesura

a pause in the middle of a line of poetry

characterisation

the creation or construction of a character

circular narrative

a story that begins and ends with the same idea or theme

colons

punctuation that introduces a list or an example that supports information before the colon

Complex sentence

a sentence with two main clauses joined by a comma , semi colon or conjunction

connotation

the ideas or feelings which a word evokes for a person in addition to its literal meaning

direct address

when a character talks directly to the audience

dramatic irony

when the audience know something that other characters don’t know

emotive language

language used to evoke particular emotions

ethos

how trustworthy you appear

enjambment

a line of poetry with no punctuation going to the next line

foreshadowing

hinting at events that will happen later in the story or narrative

hamartia

the tragic hero fatal flaw in a tragedy this is usual the reason that things went wrong for them in narratives or stories

hyperbole

exaggerating for effect

imagery

creating a image in the readers mind

juxtaposition

when two or more contrasting ideas are placed near each other

logos

how logical and well evidenced an arguement is

metaphor

saying something is something else

microcosm

a community place or situation regarded as representing in miniature the characteristics of something much larger

motif

a repeated idea in a text

oxymoron

two opposite ideas placed by each other in a text

pathetic fallacy

when the weather reflects the mood

pathos

how much of an emotional response you can get from your audience

personification

giving inanimate objects some human feelings and actions

plosives

harsh sounds made by blocking and releasing airflow (p , b , t , d , k , g )

prose

written language in its ordinary form without poetic rhythm usually spoken by lower status characters

protoganists

main characters in a text or narrative

refrain

a repeated line or phrase in a poem or song

repitition

repeating a word or phrase

rhetorical question

a question asked not expecting an answer to make an audience think or dramatic effect

rhyme

the sounds of words that sound alike to one another

rhythm

a beat inside a poem

semantic field

a set of words that are linked in topic or meaning ti eachother

semicolons

a punctuation used to separate items in a list or two independent clauses in meaning

sibilance

repeated “s” sounds

simile

comparing two things using like or as

simple sentence

a sentence with one main clause

stanza

a section of a poem (s)

symbolism

when something represents a different idea

theme

the main idea in a text piece

tone

the mood or atmosphere created in a text or a spoken line of dialogue

tragic hero

the protagonist in a tragedy who has a noble background but falls from grace due to their hermatia

verse

writing with poetic rhythm - spoken by high powered characters in plays or texts or narratives or books