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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
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