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Noun

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Naming word (name of something)

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Verb

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Doing word (an action)

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Adjective

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Describing word (descriptor)

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Adverb

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Describes a verb (how you did something, normally ends in ‘ly’)

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Sonnet

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14 line poem

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Lyric

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Song-like poem

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Ballad

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song-like poem that tells a story

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Ode

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Poem dedicated to something

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Stanza

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Verse of a poem (paragraph)

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Quatrain

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Four line stanza

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Sestet

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A six line stanza

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Octave

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Eight line stanza

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Iambic Metre

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Short syllable, then long syllable. ....

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Trochaic Metre

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Long syllable, then short syllable. ....

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Trimeter

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Three feet per line

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Tetrameter

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Four feet per line

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Pentameter

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Five feet per line

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Rhyming Couplet

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Ending words rhyme

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Alternate Rhyme

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Every other line rhymes (ABAB)

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Envelope Rhyme

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Beginning line rhymes with end line, two lines inbetween rhyme (ABBA)

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Half Rhyme

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Words that almost rhyme but not quite

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Enjambment

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When there is no punctuation so the line flows to the next

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End-stopped line

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Line that ends with a fullstop

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Caesura

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Punctuation used to cause a pause in the line

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Simple sentence

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Has only one clause

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Minor sentence

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Part of a sentence

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Compound sentence

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Sentence with two (or more) independent clauses

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Complex sentence

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A sentence with an independent and dependent clause.

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Declarative mood

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A basic statement, declares something

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Imperative mood

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Gives a command

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Interrogative mood

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Asks a question

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Exclamatory mood

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Ends in an exclamation mark

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Syndetic listing

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A list that uses conjunctions such as ‘and’, ‘or’, or ‘but’ (like this list)

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Asyndetic listing

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A list that does not use conjunctions such as ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’ (like this one)

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Conjunction

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Connects two parts of a sentence (clauses), ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’

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Preposition

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Tells you the position of something, ‘under’, ‘near’

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Determiner

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Introduces a noun, ‘the’, ‘a’, ‘some’, ‘many’

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Concrete noun

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physical object

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Abstract noun

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a thing like an idea or a value, it cannot be touched.

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Proper noun

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The actual name given to something, has a capital at the start

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Pronoun

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Replaces a noun, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘they’

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Dynamic verb

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Describes an action

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Stative verb

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Describes a state of being, ‘want’, ‘need’

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Passive verb

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A verb that is in the past, ‘taught’, ‘caught’, ‘washed’

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Modal verb

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Additional verb for possibility of necessity, ‘can’, ‘could’

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Premodifier

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An adjective that comes before a noun, ‘the careful driver’

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Postmodifier

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An adjective that comes after a noun, ‘His face was thin’

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Comparative adjectives

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An adjective that compares things, ‘bigger’, ‘smaller’

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Comparative adverbs

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An adverb that compares things, ‘less’, ‘more’

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Superlative adjectives

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An adjective that takes the degree of comparison between things to the furthest degree, ‘biggest’, ‘smallest’

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Superlative adverbs

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An adverb that takes the degree of comparison between things to the furthest degree, ‘most’, ‘least’

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Noun phrase

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A phrase focused on a noun

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Adjectival phrase

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A phrase focused on an adjective

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Adverbial phrase

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A phrase focused on an adverb

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Prepositional phrase

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A phrase that starts with a preposition

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Simile

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Saying something is ‘similar to’ or ‘like’ something.

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Metaphor

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Saying something is something else

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Personification

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Saying an inanimate object is something alive.

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Alliteration

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Repetitive use of consonants at the start of words

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonants within words

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Assonance

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Repetition of same vowel within words

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like what they’re describing

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Sibilant

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S, Sh, Z

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Plosive

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P, B

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Dental

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D, T

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Guttural

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C, K, G

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Fricative

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F, V

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Liquid

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L, R

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Nasal

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M, N

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Aspirant

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