gcse literary terms

o yeh, 1 or 2 more that just popped into my head


juxtapose - compare 2 things side by side
consanance - not sure, but i think isnt it like when the consant parts of a sentence are similar?
assonance, same as above with vowely bits?
dental - words beginign D
fricative - f
labial - l
sibilance - s



thnx

hi

i am just looking through the literary terms i know to help analyse/compare poems for gcse.

I was wondering if you can check my definitions for each are right, and also point out any i've missed , thnx a bunch

p.s. i've only given very vague definitions

collate - compare
chiasmus - kinda like a symetrical verse
polysyndeton - lots of "and"s
asyndeton - not many "and"s
anthropomorphic - giving something human qualities
plosive - words like 'plop', that kinda explosiveness (i know what it means just cant really describe it)
onomatopoeia - sounds like what it is
pejorative - negative, bad sounding word
enjamb(e)ment - run-on lines
alliteration - string of words beginning with same letter
chauvinism - believing one thing better than another
pathetic fallacy - giving objects human feelings
pleonism, e.g. tiny little ant (redundant words)
eupheminism - (i think making something sound offensive?)
cacophemism - same as above
dysphemism, - antonym of above 2
ambigious - two possible meanings of a word
equivoke - kinda synonym (sp?) of above)
colloquial - slang, informal
epizeuxis - immediate word repetition for emphasis

and of course the simpler ones like metaphor, simile, but i know all them


thnx so much if you can help

o rite, yeh i knwo you dont need them all, but i always find a decent vocab generally tells the examiner you're in the A* bracket even if you content itself isnt quite there

its kinda how i blag my way through subject and questions i dont understand haha

I'd disagree with the above; I hope you realise that the examiner won't know half of these terms! They don't sit down and learn the terms of analysing a poem when you do an English degree you know. It's all very well having the technical term from something; they'd much prefer it if you could just explain what you're understanding is and perhaps throw in the odd "this is an example of...".

I have to agree with this. It's good to know some technical terms, though I don't think it will be too essential at GCSE. But you're required to understand the poem and explain what you think about it, to formulate opinions, etc. I reckon the examiner will just be rather annoyed if they come across the sentence 'the epizeuxis coupled with the asyndeton style make this line a cacophemism with colloquial chiasmus'; An example of not really understanding the poem, just trying to sound clever.
I like learning literary terms and it's interesting to know the names of things, as well as being able to recognise that certain techniques actually have names, etc. But this should never be a substitute for actual comprehension of the text.

A Euphemism is saying something to sound LESS offensive, whereas a cacophemism is the opposite - making something sound MORE offensive.

Dysphemism isn't an antonym of a euphemism, it's an antonym of cacophemism only.

There is no second "e" in enjambment.

You should go onto google, type in "define:" and then the word. For example, "definenomatopoeia"

Some of those words are coming up as incorrect in my spell checker though...

I reckon the examiner will just be rather annoyed if they come across the sentence 'the epizeuxis coupled with the asyndeton style make this line a cacophemism with colloquial chiasmus'; An example of not really understanding the poem, just trying to sound clever.

You're super uncool