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What is alliteration

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Using words that have the same letter to make a noise

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What is imagery

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Words that put an image into your head

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What is a simile

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They use as or like to compare something to something else

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What is a metaphor

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They use is to describe something as if it were something else

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What is a narrative

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A story in a poem

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What is classy onomatopoeia

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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”

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What is a hyperbole

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Excessive exaggeration

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What is repetition

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Repeating a word or a phrase for effect

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What is a rhetorical question

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A question that is not supposed to be answered

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Give a example of a personal pronoun

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I, you, she and he

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When writing a letter what structure should you use or rules

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P in AFOREST

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When writing a letter and ending it what should you use at the end if you know the person’s name

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Yours sincerely

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What should you do when you’re writing a letter and you don’t know their name

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You should write yours faithfully

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What is a perspective

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The point of view for people

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What is foreshadowing

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Be a warning or indication of a future event

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What is animal imagery

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The relationship between humans and animals being highlighted and trying to get that image into your head

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What is symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

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What is a protagonist

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The leading character in a play film or novel etc

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What is a semantic field

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A set of related items

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What is an omniscient narrator

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It’s a third person speaking normally in books telling the story but this person is not in the book

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What is an adjective

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A describing word

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What is a verb

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A doing word and this can be an action like fighting

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What is a noun

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A naming word, it names a person animal place or thing

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What is a adverb

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It is used to tell us more about the verb, like I loudly walked

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What is a symbiotic relationship

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Relationship that both species or people benefit from

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What is a proper noun

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A noun used to name people or places and these always begin with a capital letter

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What is a common noun

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A noun used to name everday things like cars trees and people

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What is a collective noun

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A noun that describes a group of people like a army or team etc

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What is a abstract noun

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A noun that describes things that cannot be seen felt heard or tasted: freedom, power etc

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What is a imperative verb

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A bossy verb that tells people what to do like sit give

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What is a singular pronoun

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They are used to refer to one person or thing e.g I you me he she

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What is a plural pronoun

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They are used to refer to more than one person or thing e.g we they us yours

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What is a preposition

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They are words that show the relationship of one thing to another like into across below above

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What is a article

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A word that gives more information about a noun, there are only three articles a an and the

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What is a connective

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This type of word joins up things and help us create a compound sentence e.g but because

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What is a nomadic person

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A person who moves from one place to another to find work or better living conditions

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What is segregation

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The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others

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What is a narrative?

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A story in a poem

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Assonce

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When lines of poetry end with the same sounds

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line

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Rhyme

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When vowel sounds within words are the same or very similar

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Volta/ pivot

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Point at which a poem changes mood, time, etc

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Casuera

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A pause within a line of poetry to give emphasis

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Irony

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Use of words or phrases that are often sarcastic and or humorous

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Plosives

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Soft, breathy sounds: s, z, th, f

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Fricatives

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

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Sibilance

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Sounded with a hissing effect, for example s, sh

48
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Superlative

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Expressing the highest or a very high degree of a quality

49
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Juxtaposition

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Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

50
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Foreshadowing

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Be a warning or indication of (a future event)

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Lexical set

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A group of words with the same topic, function or form. Like animals, pigeon, tortoise and tiger

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Archaisms

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Words that are very old or old-fashioned

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End Focus

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The most important information in a clause or sentence is placed at the end

54
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What is a lexical verb

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A verb that isn’t an auxilary verb and is also know as a main verb, is a subjects action

55
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Give an example of a lexical verb

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Sat and rained

56
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What is a dynamic verb, give 2 examples

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A verb that describes an action and drove, fought, moved and etc

57
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What is a stative verb

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A verb that describes a state situation or condition

58
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Give 2 examples of a stative verb

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Own, love and need

59
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What is a modal verb, give 2 examples

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A verb that implies a likelihood. Ought, might and shouldn’t

60
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Give 4 examples of what you could use instead of shows

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Describes, stresses, indicates, proves, confirms, hints, reveals and etc

61
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What is a dictator

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A ruler who has total power over everything and everyone, typically by force

62
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What is a comrade

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A word used to address a fellow member of an organisation – typically linked to the armed forces - or to address people in communist countries.

63
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What is an allegory

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A story, poem or a picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typicaly a moral or political one

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What is anthropomorphism

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the showing or treating of animals, gods, and objects as if they are human in appearance, character, or behaviour.

65
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What is a fairy tale

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a story for children with fantastical elements

66
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What is a dystopia

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an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian.

67
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What is irony

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a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result

68
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What is a maxim

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a short, memorable statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.

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What is a moral

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A principle or belief concerning right and wrong behaviour

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What is a objective

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based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings

71
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What is an ominscent narrator

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third-person narrator who knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.

72
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What is propoganda

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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

73
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What is satire

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a technique use to expose and criticise foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule.

74
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What is naive

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Lack of experience

75
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What is cynical

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Disbelieving and supicous

76
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What is tyrannical

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A brutal leader

77
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What is ineffectual

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Hopeless

78
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What is a totalitarian

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Where the leader has complete control

79
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What is a megalomaniac

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Power hungry

80
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What is narcissistic

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Someone who thinks about themselves a lot and admires themselves too much

81
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Give an 3 examples of a noun

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Pig, dogs,barn boxer, squealer, field

82
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Give three examples of proper nouns

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John, Wall Street and Boxer

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What is an abstract noun?

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Something that is a feeling, it can be an idea of quality

84
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Give two examples of abstract nouns

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Proud, determination and hope

85
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What is a concrete noun?

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A noun that refers to a physical thing

86
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Give examples of an article

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A, an,the

87
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What is interjection?

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A word that is used to express emotion in one word e.g Yikes, wow

88
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What are all the things that you have to include in analysis?

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Zoom, writers, intention, readers, reaction, context and explanation

89
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Apathy definition

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Lack of interest, enthusiasm

90
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What is a subordinate clause

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Not a sentence, adds information. Conjunction + subject + verb = subordinate clause. E.g before we ate.

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What is a main clause

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Includes a subject and verb. E.g they play

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What is a complex sentence

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A sentence with a main clause and subordinate clause

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What is a rhyming couplet

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A rhymimg pair with lines of similar length. E.g suprise suprise. Its the peacock that flies

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What is a paraphrase

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Rewording something and explaining it in a different way

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What is the word for something that starts with b or p

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Bilabial plosive

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What is the word for something that starts with t or d

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Aveolar plosive

97
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What is the word for something that starts with k or g

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Velar plosive

98
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How do you use a colon

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He always trained hard : to fight
You will need to bring two things : a cake and candles

99
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How to use a semi colon

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The pancakes were delicious; they were fluffy. I cant go out tonight ; I have homework. Boys : without a mother, are lost

100
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In english langauge paper 1 in what questions does SPAG matter

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Question 5 , creative writing

101
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Name all the punctuation to get full SPAG marks in creative writing

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() ; : , . ! ? “” - …

102
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In what questions in english langauge paper 1 can you use language and structure

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Q4 and Q5

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What is an extended metaphor

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A metaphor that runs through multiple sentences, 2 or more

104
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Whats the narrative perspective

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What person the story is told in . 1st / 3 rd person

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Whats the exposition

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The start of a story

106
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Whats analepsis

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Flashback, presents past events

107
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Whats prolepsis

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Flash forward presenting future events

108
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What is a motif

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A reccuring element in a story

109
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What is the resolution

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The solution of a conflict, after the climax

110
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What is the climax

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What the reader has been waiting for in a text, most anticipated moment

111
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Linear narrative

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Story told chronologically

112
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What is a dual narrative

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A story told from multiple perspectives

113
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What is a cyclical narrative

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A story ends the way it begins

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What is an anticlimax

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When the point at which a story has been leading up to ends differently then the way it was thought to, less action

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