English GCSE

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• Literary term verse/poetic version paragraph stanza
• Abab aabb abcb examples rhyme scheme
• Rhyming pairs couplets is in
• Poem consists lines theme love rhyming couplet end
• Turning point poem volta what
• Poem set rhyme scheme rhythm free verse
• Poem set rhyme scheme rhythm blank verse
• Dramatic pause mid-line poem represented punctuation caesura
• Key idea play poem extract theme
• Term repeated times triadic structure
• General feel text as tone mood atmosphere
• Literary term statement declarative sentence
• Literary term question interrogative sentence
• Literary term sentence ending exclamation mark exclamative sentnece
• Literary term order/command imperitive sentence
• Question prompts audience answer deliberately create effect rhetorical
• Word class standard labels people places things common
• Word class identifies formal names starting capital letters
• Word class ideas concepts emotions tangible abstract noun
• Word class terms replace nouns i pronoun
• Doing/action word verb a is
• Words describe verbs adverb that
• Word describes noun adjective a
• Adverbs adjectives nouns verbs formally pre post modification
• Term everyday objects human features characteristics personification
• Term animals human features characteristics anthropomorphism
• Term humans characteristics animals zoomorphism
• Writer nature weather create tone mood atmosphere pathetic
• Word associations connotations are also
• Field meaning connects key theme text semantic
• Vocabulary emotion/feelings describes evokes emotive
• Event comment presented text hints major plot development
• Writer hints bad future foreboding
• Attitude focuses positives/looking bright side optimistic
• Attitude focuses negatives/glass half empty pessimistic
• Sympathy sorrow evoked reader pathos
• Extreme exaggeration writer hyperbole used
• Text interpreted ways adjective ambiguous
• Repetition vowel sounds assonance of
• Repetition sound start number consecutive words alliteration
• Repetition s sounds sibilance of
• Most/least extreme form adjective e.g tallest bravest superlative
• What’s term describe combining contrasting ideas juxtaposition
• Opposites combined e.g deafening silence bitter sweet burning
• Word opposite terms e.g black/white tall/short weak/strong antithesis

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