English Language And Structure Flashcards
What is alliteration
Using words that have the same letter to make a noise
What is imagery
Words that put an image into your head
What is a simile
They use as or like to compare something to something else
What is a metaphor
They use is to describe something as if it were something else
What is a narrative
A story in a poem
What is classy onomatopoeia
Words that make this sound that is said but not like in KS3 but like this “his bones cracked as I stompted my foot onto his shattered knee”
What is a hyperbole
Excessive exaggeration
What is repetition
Repeating a word or a phrase for effect
What is a rhetorical question
A question that is not supposed to be answered
Give a example of a personal pronoun
I, you, she and he
What is a perspective
The point of view for people
What is foreshadowing
Be a warning or indication of a future event
What is animal imagery
The relationship between humans and animals being highlighted and trying to get that image into your head
What is symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
What is a protagonist
The leading character in a play film or novel etc
What is a semantic field
A set of related items
What is an omniscient narrator
It’s a third person speaking normally in books telling the story but this person is not in the book
What is an adjective
A describing word
What is a verb
A doing word and this can be an action like fighting
What is a noun
A naming word, it names a person animal place or thing
What is a adverb
It is used to tell us more about the verb, like I loudly walked
What is a symbiotic relationship
Relationship that both species or people benefit from
What is a proper noun
A noun used to name people or places and these always begin with a capital letter
What is a common noun
A noun used to name everday things like cars trees and people
What is a collective noun
A noun that describes a group of people like a army or team etc
What is a abstract noun
A noun that describes things that cannot be seen felt heard or tasted: freedom, power etc
What is a imperative verb
A bossy verb that tells people what to do like sit give
What is a singular pronoun
They are used to refer to one person or thing e.g I you me he she
What is a plural pronoun
They are used to refer to more than one person or thing e.g we they us yours
What is a preposition
They are words that show the relationship of one thing to another like into across below above
What is a article
A word that gives more information about a noun, there are only three articles a an and the
What is a connective
This type of word joins up things and help us create a compound sentence e.g but because
What is a nomadic person
A person who moves from one place to another to find work or better living conditions
What is segregation
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
What is a narrative?
A story in a poem
Assonce
When lines of poetry end with the same sounds
Enjambment
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line
Rhyme
When vowel sounds within words are the same or very similar
Volta/ pivot
Point at which a poem changes mood, time, etc
Casuera
A pause within a line of poetry to give emphasis
Irony
Use of words or phrases that are often sarcastic and or humorous
Plosives
Harsh sounds
Fricatives
Soft sounds
Sibilance
Sounded with a hissing effect, for example s, sh
Superlative
Expressing the highest or a very high degree of a quality
Juxtaposition
Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
Foreshadowing
Be a warning or indication of (a future event)
Lexical set
A group of words with the same topic, function or form. Like animals, pigeon, tortoise and tiger
Archaisms
Words that are very old or old-fashioned
End Focus
The most important information in a clause or sentence is placed at the end
What is a dynamic verb, give 2 examples
A verb that describes an action and drove, fought, moved and etc
What is a stative verb
A verb that describes a state situation or condition
Give 2 examples of a stative verb
Own, love and need
What is a modal verb, give 2 examples
A verb that implies a likelihood. Ought, might and shouldn’t
Give 4 examples of what you could use instead of shows
Describes, stresses, indicates, proves, confirms, hints, reveals and etc
What is a dictator
A ruler who has total power over everything and everyone, typically by force
What is a comrade
A word used to address a fellow member of an organisation – typically linked to the armed forces - or to address people in communist countries.
What is an allegory
A story, poem or a picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typicaly a moral or political one
What is anthropomorphism
the showing or treating of animals, gods, and objects as if they are human in appearance, character, or behaviour.
What is a fairy tale
a story for children with fantastical elements
What is a dystopia
an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian.
What is irony
a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result
What is a maxim
a short, memorable statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.
What is a moral
A principle or belief concerning right and wrong behaviour
What is a objective
based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings
What is an ominscent narrator
third-person narrator who knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.
What is propoganda
ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader or a government
What is satire
a technique use to expose and criticise foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.
What is naive
Lack of experience
What is cynical
Disbelieving and supicous
What is tyrannical
A brutal leader
What is ineffectual
Hopeless
What is a totalitarian
Where the leader has complete control
What is a megalomaniac
Power hungry
What is narcissistic
Someone who thinks about themselves a lot and admires themselves too much
Give an 3 examples of a noun
Pig, dogs,barn boxer, squealer, field
Give three examples of proper nouns
John, Wall Street and Boxer
What is an abstract noun?
Something that is a feeling, it can be an idea of quality
Give two examples of abstract nouns
Proud, determination and hope
What is a concrete noun?
A noun that refers to a physical thing
Give examples of an article
A, an,the
What is interjection?
A word that is used to express emotion in one word e.g Yikes, wow
What are all the things that you have to include in analysis?
Zoom, writers, intention, readers, reaction, context and explanation
Apathy definition
Lack of interest, enthusiasm
What is a subordinate clause
Not a sentence, adds information. Conjunction + subject + verb = subordinate clause. E.g before we ate.
What is a main clause
Includes a subject and verb. E.g they play
What is a complex sentence
A sentence with a main clause and subordinate clause
What is a rhyming couplet
A rhymimg pair with lines of similar length. E.g suprise suprise. Its the peacock that flies
What is a paraphrase
Rewording something and explaining it in a different way
What is the word for something that starts with b or p
Bilabial plosive
What is the word for something that starts with t or d
Aveolar plosive
What is the word for something that starts with k or g
Velar plosive
How do you use a colon
He always trained hard : to fight
You will need to bring two things : a cake and candles
How to use a semi colon
The pancakes were delicious; they were fluffy. I cant go out tonight ; I have homework. Boys : without a mother, are lost
In english langauge paper 1 in what questions does SPAG matter
Question 5 , creative writing
Name all the punctuation to get full SPAG marks in creative writing
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In what questions in english langauge paper 1 can you use language and structure
Q4 and Q5
What is an extended metaphor
A metaphor that runs through multiple sentences, 2 or more
Whats the narrative perspective
What person the story is told in . 1st / 3 rd person
Whats the exposition
The start of a story
Whats analepsis
Flashback, presents past events
Whats prolepsis
Flash forward presenting future events
What is a motif
A reccuring element in a story
What is the resolution
The solution of a conflict, after the climax
What is the climax
What the reader has been waiting for in a text, most anticipated moment
Linear narrative
Story told chronologically
What is a dual narrative
A story told from multiple perspectives
What is a cyclical narrative
A story ends the way it begins
What is an anticlimax
When the point at which a story has been leading up to ends differently then the way it was thought to, less action
8 synonyms for shows
Illustrates, demonstrates, alludes (indirect reference), establishes, evokes, validates, clarifies, thematizes (focuses or develops a theme
How to write a blog. Start and end
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Formal letter. Start and end
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I am writing to formally express ..
Yours sincerely…
Speech. Start and end
Good evening, everyone. It is an absolute honor to stand before you …
Let us remember that …
Article. Start and end
General summary of the topic with thought enticing/ provoking question
In conclusion ..
