Havisham (Scottish Highers English): Flashcards

Distinct character (not poet) speaks throughout poem

Device placing contradictory terms/ideas together

Oxymoron showing love & hate existing simultaneously

Hardest, most explosive sounds in English (b, p)

Sentence runs over from one line to next

Jilted by fiancé on her wedding morning

Pejorative (sneering/insulting) term for unmarried woman

Eyes hardened like stone; green = jealousy

Two equally stressed syllables (e.g. Spin/ster)

Voice created by poet, distinct from poet themselves