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Knowledge Base: English Narrative Poetry Year 7 | Autumn Term 2
Context
6.1
Shalott
A fictional island close to the famous kingdom of Camelot. The 'Lady' lives in a castle on the island.
6.2
Country music (Cash, Presley, Rogers)
Genre of music popular in the southern states of the USA. Songs often follow a descriptive narrative and focus on the lives of characters.
6.3
Vernon Scannell (writer of ‘Nettles’)
A soldier during World War 2. His poetry often reflected his experiences at war. He believed that war never left a person’s memory.
6.4
Poker (‘The Gambler’)
A card game where players must make good decisions and attempt to keep their feelings hidden so they don't reveal which cards they are playing with.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Definition
Morphology and etymology
Synonyms and similar words
8.1
harmonious
Adjective: Free from disagreement. Tuneful.
“The employees had a harmonious working relationship.”
Suffixes ‘-ous’ or ‘-ious’ = to have the characteristics of’ something. Words with these suffixes are adjectives and are used to describe what something
else is like.
melodic congruous balanced agreeable
8.2
ambivalent
Adjective: Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
“Some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her.”
Prefix ‘ambi-‘ means ‘both’, and ‘valent’ ultimately derives from the Latin verb valēre, meaning ‘to be strong’.
irresolute conflicting uncertain
in two minds
8.3
monstrous
Adjective: having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster, outrageously evil/wrong or extraordinarily large.
“They were not lovable, they were monstrous and violent.”
The suffix ‘-ous’ means ‘full of’. When it is added to words ending in-e, the ‘e’ is removed and –
ous is added, e.g. fame +-ous = famous. With words ending in-y pronounced /i/, the ‘y’ is changed to an ‘i’ and-ous is added, e.g. mystery +-ous = mysterious.
grotesque horrifying tremendous immense
8.4
fractious
Adjective: irritable and quarrelsome or difficult to control.
“They fight and squabble like fractious children.”
Suffix ‘-ation’ = Turns a verb into a noun.
unmanageable disagreeable irritable unruly
Poetic Devices
7.1
stanza
A group of lines of poetry forming a unit e.g. a poetic paragraph
7.2
enjambment
The continuation of a sentence of poetry across a line break or stanza.
7.3
caesura
A break in the middle of a line of poetry demarcated by a full stop, question mark, exclamation mark or ellipsis.
7.4
end stopped line
A line of poetry which concludes at the end of the line and is demarcated with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
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