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Adjective Adverb Verb Adjectives are words that describe or modify nouns Adverbs describe or modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs Verbs typically describe actions and states of being Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley Frà Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning Volley’d and thunder’d: Storm’d at with shot and shell The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson Metaphor Personification Pathetic Fallacy A figure of speech in which one thing is described in the terms of another Personification is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects A term used to describe the attribution of human emotions to the natural world a healing star among the wounded Checking out Me History, by John Agard Bullets smacking the belly out of the air – He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm Bayonet Charge, by Ted Hughes Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army Attacks once more Exposure, by Wilfred Owen Repetition Simile Symbol Repetition is a unifying element in poetry and prose A simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly likened to another A symbol is an object which represents or ‘stands’ for something else

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Page 1: €¦  · Web viewAdjectives are words that describe or modify nouns. Adverbs describe or modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. Verbs typically describe actions and states of

Adjective Adverb VerbAdjectives are words that describe or modify nouns

Adverbs describe or modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs

Verbs typically describe actions and states of being

Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert.

Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frà Pandolf’s handsWorked busily a day, and there she stands.

My Last Duchess, by Robert Browning

Volley’d and thunder’d:Storm’d at with shot and shell

The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson

Metaphor Personification Pathetic FallacyA figure of speech in which one thing is described in the terms of another

Personification is the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects

A term used to describe the attribution of human emotions to the natural world

a healing staramong the wounded

Checking out Me History, by John Agard

Bullets smacking the belly out of the air –He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

Bayonet Charge, by Ted Hughes

Dawn massing in the east her melancholy armyAttacks once more

Exposure, by Wilfred Owen

Repetition Simile SymbolRepetition is a unifying element in poetry and prose

A simile is a figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly likened to another

A symbol is an object which represents or ‘stands’ for something else

In every cry of every Man,In every infant’s cry of fear

London, by William Blake

The child’s vocabulary I carried herelike a hollow doll

The Emigrée, by Carol Rumens

Maps too. The sun shines throughtheir borderlines

Tissue, by Imtiaz Dharker

Page 2: €¦  · Web viewAdjectives are words that describe or modify nouns. Adverbs describe or modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. Verbs typically describe actions and states of

Poetic Terms

Structure Stanza length (shape and regularity) Line length (shape and regularity) Caesura and enjambment Contrast Motif Climax and anti-climax Linear and cyclical structure

Imagery Simile Metaphor Symbol Concrete and abstract images Personification Pathetic fallacy Symbol and motif Conceit Diction (e.g. military, biblical)

Sound Voice and tone Alliteration and sibilance Rhyme and rhythm Repetition Meter and regularity Hard and soft consonants OnomatopoeiaKey Dates

Anthology Timeframe Shelley to Garland 1792 - 1938

Global Conflict Timeline Haitian Revolution 1791 - 1804 Crimean War 1853 - 1856 World War 1 1914 - 1918 World War 2 1939 - 1945 Vietnam War 1955 - 1975 Cambodian Civil War1968 - 1975 ‘The Troubles’ 1968 - 1998 Lebanon War 1982 - 1982 Gulf War 1990 - 1991