English Literature Summer Homework Tasks
1. Design your own glossary of the definitions of the following terms. You will be expected to
keep this glossary in your folder for the duration of your English Literature course. Design a
glossary that is original and memorable. Your teacher will collect these in and award you an
effort grade for your design.
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Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Sibilance
Plosives
Enjambment
Caesura
Half rhyme
Perfect rhyme
Free verse
Blank verse
Iambic pentameter
Ode
Ballad
Sonnet
Connotations
Symbolism
Imagery
Semantic field
Dramatic irony
Soliloquy
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Zoomorphism
Simile
Metaphor
Subtext
Juxtaposition
Oxymoron
Pathetic fallacy
Foreshadowing
Free indirect speech
Irony
Satire
Parody
Pastiche
Tone
Motif
Stagecraft
Personification
Anthropomorphism
Subplot
Proxemics
2. Read a Shakespeare play of your choice to enrich your study of your set text, The Tempest.