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3. Adjective Definition: A word that describes how a noun looks, behaves, feels…
Example: the beautiful girl
a happy family
the red book
4. Verb Definition: An action word – if you can put to in front of it, it is a verb
Example: to play, to swim, to walk, to break, to compare
5. Adverb Definition: A word that describes how a verb is ‘done’ – normally ends in ‘ly’
Example: happily, quickly, shyly, badly
6. Stanza Definition: A verse of poetry – like a paragraph
7. Theme Definition: What a poem is really about
Example: Once Upon A Time’s themes are:
truth
superficiality
Westernisation
All of the poems we will study have a common theme - identity
8. Mood/Tone Definition: The mood or tone of a poem is the feeling expressed
Example: A poem can be – sad, positive, hopeful, pessimistic, joyful…many others
Once Upon A Time is a sombre, pessimistic poem but ends on a hopeful tone
9. Simile Definition: To compare one thing with another using ‘like’ or ‘as’
Example: “The man stood still as a pillar”
“The green grass shone like a field of emeralds”
10. Metaphor Definition: To say one thing IS another – this could be anything from a small detail to the whole poem.
Example: “The mirror was a portal to her soul”
In “Once Upon A Time” the ‘son’ represents all of Africa’s people
11. Personification Definition: To give an object or animal human features or characteristics
Example: “The horse nodded in agreement”
“The fingers of the plant reached around the fence”
12. Onomatopoeia Definition: A word or phrase that represents and resembles a sound
Example:
“plop”
“bang”
“gurgle”
13. Meter Definition: The beat or rhythm of a piece of poetry
14. Imagery Definition: The use of words or phrases to create a picture in the reader’s mind
15. Alliteration Definition: The same sound at the start of word next or close to one another – used to emphasise or create a mood
Example: “The phone was frantically ringing”
“The beach ball bounced over the boat”
16. Sibilance Definition: A special type of alliteration using the ‘s’ sound
Example: “The sea snake slithered over the sand”
17. Enjambment Definition: Where one line of a stanza is continued into the next stanza
Example: See “Follower”
18. Rhetorical Question Definition: A question used to persuade or make the reader think
