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Mid Year Assessments Year 9 > English > Flashcards

English Flashcards

1
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What is a Simile

A

Describing something using like or as

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2
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What is a Metaphor

A

a comparison which is not literally true

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3
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What is a Caesura

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A pause between the middle of a line

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4
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What is a Enjambment

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When a line is continued without being stoped

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5
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What is volta

A

The turn of thought or argument

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What is a extended metaphor

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a metaphor that goes over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of poetry

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7
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What is a Personifiacation

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When a human charectaristic is described as something non-human

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8
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What is alliteration

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When one letter or sound is used twice in close proximaty

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9
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What is a rhyme scheme

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When there is a rhyme that is repeated over many lines

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10
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What is Rhythm

A

Repeated pattern of sound or movement

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11
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What is repetition

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When something is used repeatitivly

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12
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What is onomatopoeia

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When a word is used to represent sounds

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13
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What is narrative voice

A

The perspective the story is told from

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14
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What is Propaganda

A

Information which is used to get a point across

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15
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What is jingoism

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When you are very patriotic

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16
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What is futility

A

pointlessness or uselessness

17
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What is terror

A

Extreme fear

18
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What is a stanza

A

A different word for a paragraph in poetry

19
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What is a verb

A

A word to describe an action

20
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What is an Adjective

A

Describes a noun or pronoun

21
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What is patroisim

A

Love for your country

22
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What is conflict

A

An extended struggle

23
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What is a hyperbole

A

Lots exaggerating used to emphasixe a point

24
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What are the trenches

A

A long narrow ditch

25
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Assonance

A

where the same or similar vowel sound is repeated

26
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Pivot

A

Where there is a change

27
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Irony

A

the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of what is actually said

28
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Frictatives

A

Soft breathy sound: s,z,th,f

29
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Plosives

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Hard, explosive sound: p, t, k, b, g, d

30
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Sibilance

A

Sounds with a hissing effect: s, sh

31
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Superlative

A

Expressing the highest or a very high degree of quality

Mid Year Assessments Year 9 (6 decks)

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