Definitions Flashcards
Adjective
A word that describes a noun or pronoun
Verb
A doing or being word
Noun
Person, place or thing
Pronoun
A word that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. E.g. you
Adverb
A word that describes a verb usually ending in ‘ly’
Superlative
The highest quality or degree of something
Metaphor
A figure of speech which is directly referred to one thing. E.g. time is money
Personification
When a thing or object is portraying human actions
Pathetic fallacy
When you give human emotions to something non-human
Simile
When a figure if speech directly compares 2 things by using ‘as’ or ‘like’
Alliteration
When nearby words have the same or similar sounding first letter.
Sentence structure
The order of all the parts of a sentence
Types of narrators
First Person, Second person, Third person
Types of 3rd person narrators
Limited - the narrator knows the inner thoughts and feelings of the character
Objective - they only say what the character does. They don’t know anything about the character.
Omniscient - they know the inner thoughts and feelings of more than one character. The narrator is all knowing and seeing
Focus
The centre of interest or activity
