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Common Noun |
A naming word for something that is tangible |
Chair, penguin, man, crumpet |
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Abstract Noun |
A naming word for an idea, concept, state of being or belief |
Sadness, love, Marxism |
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Proper noun |
A naming word for a specific example of a common noun (Often people or places) |
Bob, Paris, Old Trafford, Coca-Cola |
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Verb |
A word which represents an action or process. A doing word. |
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Stative verb |
A word that represents a process that is often only mental |
Think, love, ponder, believe |
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Active Verb |
A word that represents a physical action |
Run, jump, kill, slap |
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Auxiliary Verb |
A verb that has to be used with another verb to create present participles or the future tense. |
"DID you go"
"I AM going" |
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Modal Verb |
An auxiliary verb that expresses a degree of possibility or necessity |
Might, could, must, should, may |
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Adjective |
A describing word which modifies a word |
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Afverb |
A describing word that modified all types of word, excluding nouns |
Most, biggest, smallest, worst |
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Superlaive |
An adjective that displays the most extreme value of its quantity |
Bigger, further, quieter |
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Comparative adjective |
An adjective that relates one thing in some way to another and usually ends in "er" |
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Indefinite Article |
THE |
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Definite article |
A or AN |
Him, her, it, he, she, you |
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Pronoun |
A word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence |
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1st Person Pronoun |
"I" and the first person plural; we, our and us |
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2nd Person Pronoun |
YOU |
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3rd Person Pronoun |
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Possessive Pronoun |
My, Mine, Our, Yours, His, Hers, Theirs (1st, 2nd, 3rd depending) |
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Demonstrative Pronoun |
This, That, Those |
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Monosyllabic Lexis |
Words which have only one syllable. |
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Polysyllabic lexis |
Words which have 2 or more syllables |
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Imperative Sentence Mood |
Sentences issuing a command |
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Declarative Sentence Mood |
When a sentence is issuing a statement |
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Interrogative Sentence Mood |
When a sentence asks a question |
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Exclamatory Sentence Mood |
When a sentence conveys a strong sense of emotion, alarm or strong emphasis |
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Register |
The level of formality in a text |
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Tenor |
The tone or the relationship between a writer and reader and how it is created |
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Context |
Social circumstances and events outside the texts which may shape the way in which they were written. |
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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 Usage |
Bloke, fella, lass, bog, arse, scran |
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Exclamaton |
A one word sentence with an exclamation mark at the end |
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Ellipsis |
When parts of a written structure are missing. They are oft indicated by three full stops in a row. |
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Syntax |
The way words form sentences |
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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, one in which the reader already knows the answer too. Oft used to pique intrest or make a point |
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Hyperphora |
When a rhetorical question is answered for you |
"Is this the best film ever? You bet it is!" |
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Hyperbole |
Over-exaggeration for effect |
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Repetition |
The repetition of words or phrases |
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Pre-Modification |
A descriptive technique where the descriptive words come before the thing they are describing. |
The big, fat wad of cash spilled from his 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, spilled from his pocket. |
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Metaphor |
A comparison that states 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" or "as" something else. |
"He's as big as a house" |
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Analogy |
Explaining something in terms of something else. |
The internet is like a series of tubes... |
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Personification |
A device in which non-human features are given personal and human qualities |
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Symbolism |
The language of a certain area. |
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Semantics |
The meaning of words |
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Acronym |
Words created from initials of other grouped words. |
The UN, NATO, RSPCA |
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Synonym |
An alternative word choice that has the same or very similar meaning |
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Homophone |
Different words that sound the same when said outloud |
They're, their, there, New, knew, |
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Juxtapoition |
The placing together of elements for some conscious effect, whether that be complimentary of contrasting. |
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Oxymoron |
The use of apparently contradictory words in a phrase |
Peaceful war, hot ice |
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Collocations |
Words that through usage naturally go together. We collectively understand that they are permanently linked |
Salt and vinegar, Laurel and Hardy, |
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Asyndetic Listing |
The listing of elements that excludes any form of co-ordinating conjunction. |
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Syndetic lising |
The listing of elements that features a co-ordinating conjunction |
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Phonological features |
Any devices used that related to sound |
Alliteration, repetition |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word that is spelled like the sound it describes. |
Drip, quack, kaboom |
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Consonance |
The repetition of double consonants in the middle of words |
I'd better buy more butter before I go out and post these letters. |
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Assonance |
The repetition of vowel sounds |
You should wear a hood while you chop the wood good |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of constant sounds in a text. |
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper |
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Genre |
Category of a type of text |
Informative article, transcript |
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Audience |
Who the text is aimed at |
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Purpose |
The reason the text has been produced |
To entertain, inform etc |
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Satire |
A piece of writing or art that pokes fun at the "establishment" |
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Neologism |
A newly invented word |
peng, deng, ting, innit |
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Compound Words |
A word created by utilising two existing words separated by a hyphen. These are compound versions of nouns, adjective, adverbs, verbs. |
Global-village, bone-hearted, to go-straight |
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Clipping |
Colloquial omission of parts of a word to make a more casual alternative. |
bra, pram1 |
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Rhetoric |
An example of persuasive language, arguable including advertising |
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Sterotype |
A label for a social group, utilizing certain characteristics of group members and applying it to them all. |
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Taboo Language |
Words that are considered socially acceptable to say in a polite, civilized society |
Politically incorrect swear words |
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Connotation |
The associations that can be gained from words. |
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Denotation |
The dictionary definition of a word |
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Irony |
Language that conveys a meaning to other to than literally expressed by the words, usually for humorous effects |
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Sarcasm |
The use of language in an ironice way with the express purpose of offending or wounding the recipient in some way. |
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Euphemism |
The polite way to say something not normally considered socially appropriate, usually to refer to going to the toilet, death |
Going to the little boys' room He's pushing up daisies |
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Dysphemisim |
An unnecessarily extreme way of saying something, not normally socially appropriate. It could incorporate taboo language or contain too much information that necessary. |
You're husband had his head blown off and their was blood everywhere/
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Pun |
A play on words |
"SupercallygoballisticCelticareatrocious" Caledonian Thistle beat Celtic 5-0 |
