English L/T Flashcards

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Using like or as…as in as sentence

Eating ice-cream is like being in heaven

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Simile

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A comparison where one thing is said to actually be another

When i eat ice cream i am in heaven

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Metaphor

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Giving something that isn’t alive a human feature

He did not realise that his last chance was walking out the door

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Personification

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The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words to create an effect

Great goal

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Allitreation

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A word that imitates a sound

Bang

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Onomatopoeia

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Listing three things to create a specific effect

Stop,look and listen

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Pattern of three

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Words and phrases deliberately used to provoke a specific emotional reaction

The defenceless kittens were crammed into the box

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Language for emotive effect

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A question that is asked for effect rather than for an answer

Who want to look at something like that

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Rhetorical question

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A word that describes a place person or thing

A popular film

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Adjective

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A doing or being word that has a tense

I swam across the lake

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Verb

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A group of words that can be understood as a unit

Around the race track

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Phrase

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A type of phrase that includes a subject and an active verb

Because she smiled at him

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Clause

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The most basic from of sentence consisting of a subject and a verb

He run

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Simple sentence

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A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction such as for,and,nor,but,or,yet,so

The student who had finished her last exam was out celebrating

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Compound sentence

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Marks used to aid the understanding of a piece of writing.Writers can use punctuation imaginatively to create an effect

He was late very late almost too late

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Punctuation

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16
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Condemned’ ‘Doomed to wander through the world’

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This suggests that if scrooge doesn’t change he will become like Marley and will be miserable going through the world

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‘I wear the chain I forged in life’

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This suggests that Marley wears this chains that have padlocks,purses and money box’s. So this is saying all he cared about was money and he’s job

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‘I made it link by link’

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This is saying that Marley made he link bigger and bigger the more horrible he was and because he didn’t change the link carried on growing

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‘Would you know the weight and length of the strong coil you bear
yourself?’

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This is saying that scrooge doesn’t know yet that he has a link and that is heavy and long

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‘Mankind was my business’

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This suggest that Marley business was man kind