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    • define enjambment
      no punctuation at the end of a line/stanza
    • define euphoric
      a state of extreme happiness
    • define apprehensive
      anxious or fearful that something bad will happen
    • define suffrage
      the right to vote
    • define inclusive language
      includes everyone
    • define poignant
      causing sensation
    • define social commentary 

      social issues in your writing
    • define dystopian
      an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice
    • define euphany
      when something is pleasing to the ear-rhythm of the poem
    • define eschatological referencing
      relating to the end of the world or the events associated with it 
    • define sibilance
      a hissing sound is created in a group of words through the repetition of 's' sounds.
    • define assonance
      resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants
    • define zoomorphism
       the conception or representation of deities in the form of animals
    • define monotonous
      uttered or sounded in one unchanging tone - boring
    • define epitaphs
      a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.
    • define hyperbole

      exaggerated statements
    • ambiguous meaning

      unclear
    • oxymoron meaning
      opposite terms
    • apothesised meaning

      viewed as god
    • define personification
      using human characteristics to describe something non human
    • define cacophony
      harsh mixture of sounds
    • define fricatives
      forcing air out to pronounce a constanant
    • apotheosis meaning

      godly
    • define chiaroscuro
      contrast of light and dark
    • define juxtaposition
      two things being placed close together
    • allusion meaning

      an indirect reference
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