Grammatical Features

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tercet, quatrain, quintain, sestet, septet

stanzas

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image/ thought running from one line to the next

enjambment

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pattern in sound of end of line

rhyme scheme

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caesure

deliberate pause/ break in a line with punctuation (!, ?, -, …)

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a

Indefinite article

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the

Definite article

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she

personal pronoun

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my

possessive adjective

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biggest

superlative

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eat this

imperative

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i like

declarative statement

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Direct/ indirect speech

..

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narrator who knows everything

omniscient narrator

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life is a roller-coaster

metaphor

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tall like a tree

simile

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flowers danced

personification

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weary eyes

transferred epithet

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sun smiling down

pathetic fallacy

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deafening silence

oxymoron

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maths is red

synaethesia

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hyperbole

im so hungry i could eat a whole cow

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hinting at something

allusion

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peter piper picked

alliteration

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every breath

every step

every word

anaphora

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s, z, sh

sibilance

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great flakes

assonance

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boom

onomatopeia

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elipsis

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furious, heavenly, terrifying

emotive

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yer a wizard

colloquial language

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death, sad

semantic field

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offhandedly mentioning something bad always happens on their birthday

foreshadowing

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what does SPECS stand for

  1. Summary - who, what, where, when

  2. Purpose - what is the intention of the author and what do they want to convey

  3. Emotion - tone and emotion evoked

  4. Craft - literary devices to convey purpose

  5. Structure - tone, stanzas, length of paragraph, beginning, middle, end

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