Y9 English - Literary Devices

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Assonance

Repeated vowel sounds of nearby words

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Anaphora

Repeated word/phrase at the start of successive sentences/phrases/clauses

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Consonance

Repeated consonant sounds

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Sonnet

14 line poem, formal rhyme scheme, usually in iambic pentameter

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Iambic pentameter

Ten syllables per line, 5 iambs, da-DUM da-DUM

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Irony

Opposite of what is expected occurs

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Caesura

Pause in the middle of a line

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Synecdoche

Figure of speech which represents the whole, or VV

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Antithesis

Juxtaposition of OPPOSITE ideas

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Elegy

Poem of lament for the dead

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Litote

Emphasises affirmative by expressing negative of negative.

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Metonymy

Related term stands for something else

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