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Common Noun |
A naming word |
Chair, sloth, murderer, ghost, toast |
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Abstract Noun |
A naming word for an idea, concept, state of being or belief |
Utilitarianism, sadness, love, politics, marxism |
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Proper Noun |
A naming word for a place or name of a person |
Adam, Nutley, The Shard |
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Verb |
A word that represents an action or process (a doing word) |
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Active Verb |
A word that represents a physical action |
Jump, run, kill, kiss, sleep |
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Stative Verb |
A word that represents a process that is often only mental |
To think, to love, to believe, to fear |
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Auxiliary verb |
A verb that has to be used with another verb in order to create present pariciples or that future tense |
"DID you go?" "I AM going" "You WILL go" |
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Modal Verb |
An auxiliary verb that express a degree of either possibility or necessity |
Might, could, must, would, should, may |
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Adjective |
A describing word that modifies a noun |
Beautiful, homeless, edible, adorable |
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Adverb |
A describing word that modifies all types of word, excluding nouns |
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Superlative |
An adjective that displays the most extreme value of its quality |
Biggest, smallest, worst, furthest, farthest, quietest |
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Comparative |
An adjective that relates one thing in some way to another and usally ends in 'er' |
Bigger, smaller, further, farther, quieter |
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Pronoun |
A word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence |
Him, her, it, he, she, I, you, me |
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Possessive pronoun (1st, 2nd, 3rd person depending) |
My, mine, our, your, his, hers, theirs |
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Demonstrative pronoun |
This, that, those |
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Monosyllabic lexis |
Words of one syllable |
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Polysllabic lexis |
Words of two or more syllable |
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Imperative sentence mood |
When a sentence is issuing a command |
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Declarative sentence mood |
When a sentence is making a statement |
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Interrogative sentence |
When a sentence is asking a question |
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Exclamatory sentence mood |
When a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion, sense of alarm or overly strong emphasis |
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Register |
The level of formality of a text |
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Tenor |
The tone, or relationship between author and reader and how it is created |
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Attitudes |
The opinions expressed in the text |
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Content |
What the text is about |
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Context |
Things outside the text which may shape its meaning |
When it was written, who wrote it |
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Form |
The structure and shape of a text |
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Themes |
The recurring ideas and images in the text |
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Colloquialism |
Informal language usage |
Bloke, fella, lass, bog, arse, bum, grub |
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Exclamation |
A one word sentence with an exclamation mark at the end |
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Ellipsis |
When parts of a written structure are missing |
...Do you see? |
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Syntax |
The way words form setences (the order of them to create meaning) |
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Parenthesis |
An aside within a text created by sectioning off extra information between brackets, dashes or between two commas |
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Rhetorical question |
A question designed not to be answered |
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Hyperbole |
Deliberate over exafferation of thing for effect |
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Litotes |
Deliberate downplaying of things for effect |
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Parallelism/patterning |
The creation of patterns in a text, through repetition of words or phrases for deliberate effect |
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Repetition |
The repetition of words or phrases |
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Tricolon/tripling |
Grouping in threes, either through repetition or through structures |
Can be used for emphasis or to add a sense of gathering momentum to a point being made |
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Imagery |
A descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture |
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Pre modification |
A descriptive thechnique where the descriptive words come before the thing they are describing |
Big, fat wad of cash spewed from inadequate pocket |
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Post modification |
A descriptive technique where the descriptive words come after the thing they are describing |
The wad of cash, big and fat, spewed from his pocket |
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Synecdoche |
A metaphor that states that something is only a small constituent part of itself, even though we commonly understand otherwise |
A new set of wheels (car) He's behind bars (prison) |
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Phonological features |
Any devices used that relate to sound |
Alliteration, repetition |
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Onomatopoeia |
When a word is spelled exactly as it sounds |
Drip, plop, quack |
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Genre |
Cataogry of text |
Romance, magazines |
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Purpose |
The reason the text has been produced |
To entertain, inform etc |
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Compound words |
A word created by utilising two existing words seperated by a hyphen |
Gobal-village, bone-headed |
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Stigmatise |
Marking something or someone out as disgaceful or shameful |
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Reappropriation |
Reclaiming a work or phrase that has come to mean something insulting and using it as if it normal |
Gay |
