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Imperative verb |
An imperative verb is one that tells someone to do something, so that the sentence it is in becomes an order or command. |
Fold your clothes up. |
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Modal verb |
Modal verbs can be used to state when something is necessary/compulsory, to give an instruction or to give advice. |
You must tidy your room. She ought to help with the shopping. James should cook the dinner tonight. |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word that sounds like the noise it describes. |
boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter. |
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Alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
Sizzling sausages |
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Assonance |
Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes. |
crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight rides by. |
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Assonance |
Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the lines of the poem creating internal rhymes. |
crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight rides by. |
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Sibilance |
Sibilance is a type of literary device and figure of speech wherein a hissing sound is created in a group of words through the repetition of 's' sounds. |
Sarah's silly sister swallowed her sweet. |
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Plosive |
Plosives are sounds like 'buh' and 'puh' (B and P). |
pat, kid, bag |
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Plosive |
Plosives are sounds like 'buh' and 'puh' (B and P). |
pat, kid, bag |
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Rhetorical question |
A question asked without expecting an answer but for the sake of emphasis or effect. |
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? |
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Juxtaposition |
the showing contrast by concepts placed side by side. |
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" |
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Hyperbole |
a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect. |
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse |
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Hyperbole |
a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect. |
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse |
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Oxymoron |
a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” |
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Hyperbole |
a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect. |
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse |
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Oxymoron |
a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” |
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Semantic field |
a collection of words which are related to one another be it through their similar meanings, or through a more abstract relation. |
if a writer is writing a poem or a novel about a ship, they will surely use words such as ocean, waves, sea, tide, blue, storm, wind, sails |
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Simile |
a literary device that compares two things in an interesting and vivid way. Words such as “like” and “as” are used to compare the two subjects. |
He was as quiet as a mouse |
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Metaphor |
a figure of speech that describes something by saying it's something else. |
She is happy as a clam. |
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Superlative |
Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality |
the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest |
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Symbolism |
A symbol is something which as well as being itself also stands for something else |
the Union Jack flag is an object made of wood and cloth but it is also a symbol of Britain. |
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Personification |
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
Trees dance in the wind |
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Oxymoron |
a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized chaos.” |
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Zoomorphism |
the representation of deity in the form or with the attributes of the lower animals. |
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Polysyndeton |
the repeated use of coordinating conjunctions to connect different items in a sentence. |
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Asyndeton |
Asyndeton is a literary device that excludes conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) to add emphasis. |
“Veni, Vidi, Vici” or “I came, I saw, I conquered.” |
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Colloquial language |
casual and conversational language |
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Anecdote |
a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident. |
I remember when I used to sit on my dad's lap while he drove around town delivering mail. |
