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Alliteration

Starting words with the same letter

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Anaphora (anna-for-ah)

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

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Apostrophes

Punctuation that shows missing letters or possession

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Caesura

a pause in the middle of a line of poetry

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characterisation

the creation or construction of a character

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circular narrative

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

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colons

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

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Complex sentence

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

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connotation

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

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direct address

when a character talks directly to the audience

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dramatic irony

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

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emotive language

language used to evoke particular emotions

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ethos

how trustworthy you appear

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enjambment

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

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foreshadowing

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

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hamartia

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

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hyperbole

exaggerating for effect

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imagery

creating a image in the readers mind

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juxtaposition

when two or more contrasting ideas are placed near each other

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logos

how logical and well evidenced an arguement is

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metaphor

saying something is something else

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microcosm

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

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motif

a repeated idea in a text

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oxymoron

two opposite ideas placed by each other in a text

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pathetic fallacy

when the weather reflects the mood

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pathos

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

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personification

giving inanimate objects some human feelings and actions

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plosives

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

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prose

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

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protoganists

main characters in a text or narrative

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refrain

a repeated line or phrase in a poem or song

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repitition

repeating a word or phrase

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rhetorical question

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

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rhyme

the sounds of words that sound alike to one another

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rhythm

a beat inside a poem

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semantic field

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

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semicolons

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

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sibilance

repeated “s” sounds

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simile

comparing two things using like or as

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simple sentence

a sentence with one main clause

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stanza

a section of a poem (s)

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symbolism

when something represents a different idea

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theme

the main idea in a text piece

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tone

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

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tragic hero

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

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verse

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

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