A-Level English- Poetry Key Terminology

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• Alliteration stylistic device number words constant sound occur
• Ambiguity meaning something with more
• Atmosphere room place situation makes feel
• Verse blank unryhming written iambic pentameter
• Caesure break middle verse a
• Couplet pair successive lines verse
• Love courtly form popular medieval era knight devotes
• Chivalry sum ideal qualifications knight rules customs medieval
• Dialect regional social variety language distinguished pronounciation grammar
• Monologue dramatic addressed audience characters thoughts feelings pivotol
• Vowel word elision omisssion end begins
• Enjambment continuation sentence pause end line couplet stanza
• Farce comic dramatic work buffonery horseplay typically including
• Free verse poetry ryhme regular rythm
• Genre style category art music literature
• Hyperbole exaggerated statements claims meant literally
• Syllable iambic pentameter line verse meterial feet consisting
• Imagery visually descriptive figurative language literary work
• Words idiom group established usage meaning deductible individual
• Intertextuality relationship texts literary a
• Irony expression one's meaning language signifies opposite typically
• Lyric expressing writer's emotions briefly stanzas recognized forms
• Metaphor something saying is else
• Monologue speech spoken character directed audience
• Narrative  story account events experiences true fictious
• Onomatopoeia word imitates sound thing describing
• Parody humourous satirical imitation piece literature writing
• Persona character assumed author written work
• Personification giving thing animal object human attributes
• Rhetoric art language writing effectively
• Rhyme strong regular repeated pattern movement sound
• Satire irony exaggeration humour ridicule expose criticse peoples
• Thing simile figure speech involving comparision kind make
• Tone musical vocal sound reference pitch quality strenght
• Syntax arrangement words phrases create well-formed sentance

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