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Common noun |
A naming word for a thing that is touchable |
Chair, penguin, trumpet |
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Abstract noun |
A naming word for an idea or belief |
Tiredness, sadness, love, politics |
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Proper noun |
A naming word for a specific example of a common noun |
Bob, eiffle tower, bradford |
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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, slap |
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Pronoun |
A word that takes place of a noun in a sentence |
Him, her, it, you, me |
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Auxiliary verb |
A verb that is used with another verb to create present participles or future tense |
Did you go will you come |
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Modal verb |
An auxiliary verb that express a degree of possibility or necessity |
Might, could, must |
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Third person pronoun |
Talking about someone thats not there |
Him, her, he, she, it |
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Possessive pronoundem |
Claiming something as theirs |
My, mine, our, your, his |
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Demonstrative pronounmon |
Showing or explaining something |
This, that, those |
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Monosyllabic lexis |
Words with one syllable |
Took, threw, grab |
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Polysyllabic lexis |
Word with more two plus syllables |
Drastic, toilet, depending |
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Imperative sentence mood |
When a sentence is issuing a command |
Take your shoes off |
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Declarative sentence mood |
When a sentence is making a statement |
I made these cakes |
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Stative verb |
A word that represents a process that is often only mental |
Think, love, believe, ponder |
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Interrogative sentence mood |
When a sentence is asking a question |
Where do these go? |
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Exclamatory sentence mood |
When a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! |
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Register |
The level of formality of a text |
High- queens speech Low-colloquial to friend On a scale |
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Tenor |
The tone, or the relationship between the author and the reader and how its 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 that may shape its meaning |
When its was written and who wrote i |
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Form |
The structure and shape of a text |
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Themes |
The recurring ideas and images in a text |
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Colloquialism |
Informal language between friends |
Hi, see you later, chat |
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Auxiliary verbmomo |
A verb that is used with another verb to create present participles or future tense |
Did you go will you come |
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Exclamation |
A one word sentence with an exclamation at the end |
Stop! |
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Ellipsis |
When parts of a written structure are missing. Seen as three full stops in a row |
And the he... |
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Syntax |
The way words form sentences |
The ordering of them to create meaning |
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Rhetorical question |
A question designed not to be answered perhaps just to strike interest |
Are we really living? |
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Hypophora |
When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer in the text |
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Hyperbole |
At deliberate over exaggeration of things for effect |
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Litotes |
Deliberate downplaying for effect |
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Repetition |
The repetition of words or phrases |
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Tripling |
Grouping in the threes either through repetition or through structures can be used for emphasis |
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Imagery |
Descriptive or metaphorical use of language to create a vivid picture |
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Modal verb |
An auxiliary verb that express a degree of possibility or necessity |
Might, could, must |
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Hypophora |
When a rhetorical question is immediately followed by an answer in the text |
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Post modification |
The descriptive word comes after the thing you are describing |
The wod of cash, big and fat, spewed from his pocket |
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Metaphor |
A comparison that states that something is actually something else |
Take a leaf out of her book |
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Simile |
A comparison that states that something is like something else |
I drive like a Demon |
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Analogy |
Explaining something in terms of something else |
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Allusion |
To refer to something indirectly or metaphorically |
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Pathetic fallacy |
When the environment or whether mirrors emotions |
She felt sad and the sky looked gloomy |
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Personification |
When a nonhuman thing is given personal and human qualities |
The trees danced in the wind |
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Extended metaphor |
When a metaphor continues throughout a text with a recurring references to the compared item |
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Lexis |
Another word for the word word |
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Adjective |
A describing word that modifies nouns |
Big, small, loud |
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Field specific lexis |
The language of a certain area |
Geography words, hills, river, population |
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Semantics |
The meaning of words |
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Acronym |
Words created by the initials of other grouped words |
RSPCA |
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Synonym |
An alternative word choice that has the same are very similar meaning |
Fright and horror |
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Homophone |
Words that sound the same but are spelt differently |
Their and theyre |
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Oxymoron |
Do you have apparently contradictory words in a phrase |
Peaceful and war |
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Onomatopoeia |
When a word is spelt exactly as the same as the sound it describes |
Drip plop quack |
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Consonanceassonance |
The repetition of double consonants in the middle of words |
Butter lettuce |
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Assonance |
There repetition of vowel sounds |
You should wear a hood |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of consonants sounds in the text often at the beginning of words |
Stupid Sam sang |
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Adverb |
A describing word that modifies all types of words except nouns |
Exactly, possibly, mostly |
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Protagonist |
The character that the reader is meant to identify with the most and follow through the story |
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Dialogue |
The presentation of characters speech |
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Ambiguity |
Weather can be more than one possible meanings or outcomes |
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Genreaudience |
Category of fiction or type of text |
Horror, persuasive |
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Audience |
Who the text is aimed at |
Adults, young people, males |
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Purpose |
The reason the text has been produced |
Entertaining, inform |
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Clipping |
Shortening words for more casual alternative |
'Cause and pram |
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Taboo languageconnotations |
Words that are considered socially unacceptable in polite society |
Swear words |
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Connotations |
The associations that can be gleaned from words |
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Denotations |
The literal meaning of words |
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Superlative |
An adjective that displays the most extreme version of a quality |
Biggest, smallest, tallest |
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Irony |
Language that conveys a meaning other than that literally expressed by the words, usually humorous |
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Sarcasm |
The use of language in an ironic way with the express purpose of offending The recipient in somewhere |
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Text speak |
The phonetic spelling of text too long to type out in full on the mobile phone |
C u l8er |
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Comparative |
An adjective that relates one thing to the other and usually ends in 'er' |
Bigger, smaller, taller |
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Definite article |
Talks about one thing in particular |
The |
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Indefinite article |
Doesn't give specifics as to which one, general |
A, an |
