English KO

• Subjugate


  Being under domination or control
• Ostracise


  To exclude someone from a group and prevent them from taking part
• Predatory


  To hurt, hunt and injure; someone who exploits people
• Disillusionment


  To feel disappointed in something or someone; to lose faith
• Itinerant


  To travel from place to place; to be both poor and homeless
• Influential


  To have a lot of influence on someone or something
• Femininity


  The qualities of being a woman and acting in a womanly or feminine way
• Alienation


  The experience of being isolated from a group or an activity that one should belong to or involved in
• Protest novel


  A form of social novel that places an emphasis on the idea of social change
• Proletarian novel


  A political form of the social protest novel that may emphasise revolution
• Fatalistic Narrative


  The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable
• Linear timeline


  Stories that are presented in a logical order by telling what happens from one point in time to the next without using flashbacks or flash-forwards and then returning to the present
• Cyclical Narrative


  A narrative that starts and ends in the same place
• Allegory


  A story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
• Antagonist


  The character who actively opposes or is hostile to the protagonist and other minor characters
• Situational irony


  When something happens that is different or opposite to what is expected or appropriate. It is a way of creating contrast between appearance and reality or expectations and outcomes in a story
• Pathos


  A word or phrase that evokes pity or sadness in the reader
• Microcosm


  A small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger
• Absentee landowners


  A person who own a profit-earning property but does not live within the property's local economic region
• Financial Crisis


  A situation where the value of financial assets drops rapidly and threatens the stability of the economy
• Anaphora


  The repetition of a line or phrase
• Enjambment


  The continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break
• Imagery


  The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words
• Rhyme


  Two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another
• Rondeau


  A poem with 13 lines divided into 3 stanzas of 5,3,5 lines with the opening words of the first line used as a refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas
• Iambic pentameter


  A line consisting of 10 stressed syllables
• Volta


  A dramatic change in topic or tone in a poem
• Refrain


  A line or lines that are repeated in poetry
• Tone


  The mood or atmosphere of the poem
• Blank Verse


  A poem without rhyme
• Meter


  The way in which rhythm is measured in a poem. A pattern that functions on two basic premises: the number of syllables in a line of poetry and how each syllable is either stressed or unstressed
• Kenning


  A compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning-eg. Oar-steed ship
• Caesura


  The use of punctuation within a line of poetry
• Metonym


  A poetic device that uses an image or idea to stand in place of something - similar to a metaphor
• Stanza


  A poetic paragraph
• Quatrain


  A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
• Tercet


  A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet
• Villanelle


  A poem with 19 lines with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain
• Regular


  A consistent rhyme pattern
• Irregular


  An inconsistent rhyme pattern