Academic team English terms

Alliteration

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a work

• The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity

• a line ending in a full pause

Apostrophe

• Referring to a popular source of media

• a line ending in a full pause

• a punctuation mark ( ’ ) used to indicate either possession

• in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

Allusion

• A person, place, thing, or animal

• a line ending in a full pause

• a punctuation mark ( ’ ) used to indicate either possession

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Blank verse

• An action word

• unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines

• a break between words within a metrical foot

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Couplet

• An action word

• unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines

• two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

• relating to England or its people or language

Enjambment

• A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line

• the act of explaining something in detail, especially a piece of writing or an idea

• two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

• relating to England or its people or language

Hyperbole

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

• the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters

Image

• the metrical pattern of a poem by breaking each line of verse up into feet and highlighting the accented and unaccented syllables

• a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

• Images and references that trigger the mind to fuse together memories of the 5 senses

• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters

Metaphor

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

• a dependent clause which uses a participle form of a verb

• a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.

• A comparison between two things, this describes one thing as if it were something else

Sonnet

• A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

• a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count

• a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

• a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme