Basic Terminology

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Noun

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A naming word for a thing that is tangible ‘chair’

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Abstract Noun

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A naming word for an idea or a concept ‘politics’

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Proper Noun

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A naming word for a specific noun such as a place or a person ‘Jack’

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Verb

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A word that represent an action or process

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Active Verb

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A word that represents a physical action ‘Jump’

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Stative Verb

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A word that represents a mental process ‘love’

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Auxiliary Verb

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A verb that is used alongside another verb in order to create a present participle or future tense ‘DID you go?’

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Modal Verb

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An auxiliary verb that expresses a degree of possibility ‘Might’

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Adjective

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A describing word that modifies a noun

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Adverb

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A describing word that modifies all words excluding nouns

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Superlative

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An adjective that shows a more extreme example of it’s quality ‘biggest’

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Comparative

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An adjective that relates one thing in some way or another ‘smaller’

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Definite Article

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‘The’

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Indefinite Article

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‘a’or ‘an’

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Pronoun

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A word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence ‘Him’

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Possessive Pronoun

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‘My’, ‘Mine’, ‘Yours’ etc…

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Monosyllabic

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Words of one syllable

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Polysyllabic

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Words of two or more syllables

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Imperative sentence

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When a sentence is issuing a command

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Declarative sentence

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When a sentence is making a statement

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Exclamatory sentence

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When a sentence conveys a great deal of emotion, a sense of alarm or a sense of emphasis

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Syntax

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The way words form sentences (the ordering of these words)

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Rhetoric’s

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Various persuasive features, ‘Rhetorical questions’

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Hyperbole

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The deliberate over-exaggeration of things

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Metaphor

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A comparison that sates something is actually something else

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Simile

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A comparison that states something is like something else

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Analogy

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Explaining something in terms of something else

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Personification

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A device in which the non-human is given human and personal qualities

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Symbolism

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Using figurative or metaphoric language, items or incidents in a way that means that certain things represent other things

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Acronym

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Words created by the initials of other grouped words ‘NATO’

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Initialism

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An abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately

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Synonym

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An alternative word choice that has the same or a very similar meaning

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Hypernym

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A word with a broad meaning constituting a category into which words with more specific meanings fall

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Hyponym

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A word of more specific meaning than a general or superordinate term applicable to it

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Oxymoron

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The use of apparent contradictory words in a phrase ‘hot ice’

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Onomatopoeia

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When words are spelled exactly as the sound ‘Bang’

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Taboo language

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Words that are considered socially unacceptable to say is polite, civilised society

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Idiom

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The words that make up the saying do not have the same meaning as the overall saying

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Dysphemism

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An unnecessarily extreme way of saying something, not normally socially appropriate

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Irregular Plurals

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Words which have the same plural as their singular forms