english test

• ambiguity: a word or phrase has two or more possible interpretations
• assonance: repition of vowel sounds
• autobiogriphical:

  something that happened in the poets life
• caesura: a pause in line of poetry
• colloquial


  sounding like everyday spoken language
• consonance 


  repitition of a consonant sound in nearby words
• dialect


  a variation of a language spoken by people from a particular place or background
• direct address 


  when the narrator of the poem speaks directly to another character
• dramatic monologue 


  a form of poetry that uses the assumed voice of a single speaker who is not the poet to address an implied audience
• emotive


  something that makes you feel a particular emotion
• empathy


  when someone understands what someone else is experiencing and how they feel about it
• end-stopping 


  finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence
• enjambment 


  when a sentence or phrase runs over from one line or stanza to the next.
• free-verse 


  poetry that doesnt rhyme and has no regular rhythm or line length
• half-rhymes 


  words that have a similar but not identical end sound
• iambic pentameter


  poetry with a metre of ten syllables five of them stressed five of them unstressed
• iambic tetrameter 


  A metre of eight syllables , 4 stressed and 4 unstressed
• internal rhyme 


  when two or more words in the same line ryhme
• irony


  when words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean and also when there is a difference between what people expect and what actually happens
• layout


  the way a piece of poetry is visually presented to the reader e.g line length how the poem is broken up into different stanzas
• form


  type of poem
• tone


  the mood or feelings suggested by the way the narrator writes
• metre


  the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to creathe ryhthm in a line of poetry
• petrarchan sonnet 


  a form of sonnet in which the first eight lines have a regular rhyme scheme and introduce a problem while the final six lines have a different rhyme scheme and solve the problem
• phoenetic spellings 


  when words are spelt as they sound rather than their usual spelling
• plosive


  a short burst of sound made when you say a word containing the letters b,d,g,k or t
• sibilance 


  repition of s and sh sounds
• sonnet


  a form of poem with fourteen lines usually follows a clear rhyme scheme
• structure


  the order and arrangment of ideas and events in a poem
• syllable 


  a single unit of sound within a word
• symbolism


  when an object stands for something else
• syntax


  the arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase so that they make sense
• third person


  when a poet writes about a character who isnt the speaker using words like he or she
• voice 


  the characteristics of the person narrating the poem
• volta


  a turning point in a poem, when the argument or tone changes dramatically
• pathetic fallacy


  giving human emotions to objects or aspects of nature in order to create a certain mood