English no 3 Flashcards
What is a subjunctive form?
A verb from or mood used to express things that COULD or SHOULD happen. It is used to express wishes, hopes, commands demands or suggestions. For example: subjunctive mood - If I were the boss, I’d leave. If I were to be rude. If that was the case, I would go. We use the subjunctive when we express intention, desire, doubt, supposition, hypothesis or proposal about the future. It can also be used to express a command or duty. It often contains verbs “be” and “were” and most commonly contains the conjunction it. If I WERE hungry, I would have some food. When we use the subjunctive mood, we want something to happen we anticipate something will happen or we imagine something happening. We usually see modal verbs such as should, could and would in these sentences.
What is cohesion between paragraphs?
When a person’s writing has cohesion, an attempt has been made to link clauses, sentences and paragraphs so that the writing hangs together writing in friction we consider……character development and descriptions, settings, opening and ending story structures and genre conventions.
What’s poetry and poetic language?
Is a writing techniques and figurative language personification, simile metaphor, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia.
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to things or ideas. The leaves danced to the ground, the leaves hopped off the trees, the leaves waved goodbye to the tree, the leaves cried out in pain as they fell from the tree.
What is a simile?
Who relates to people (subject) whom relates to the people (object) which relates to animals and objects. possession, where - refers to places, when - refers to time
What is a metaphor?
Is a figure of speech that compares two things by saying one thing is the other thing. He has the heart of a lion. The meal was a rainbow of flowers. You are the heart of a lion. The meal was a rainbow of flowers. You are the sunshine of my life.
What is an alliteration?
Repeated initial sound weeping willow tree.
What is an assonance?
Repeated (similar) vowel rhyme The river flOWed, slOWly alOng belOw the grOUnd. Have 1 person saying that they are going on a trip. What object they’ll take starts with the same letter as place.
What it is an onomatopoeia?
Tippy tap etc. Art or work of the poet; elevated expression thought or feeling in metrical or rhythmical form. Text which uses features such asa rhythm, rhyme or syntax and vocabulary to convey ideas in an intense way. In poems, words are made to work harder than they do in prose and poet use a number of linguistic and structural devices to squeeze as labour from them as they can .
What is a determiner?
A word introduces a noun, such as: an a, every, this, those, the
What are pronouns?
A word that is used in place of a noun that is a specific person or thing, such as: she, him, mine, are, I, us, me.
What are preposition?
A word that describes the postition of something, the time it happened or the time it happened or the way it is done, such as under, between on, after, by conjunctions a word that connects, phrases or sentences, such as: she, him, min, are, I, us, me.
What are expanded noun phrases?
An expanded noun contains an adjective within the noun.
Noun - dog
Noun phrase - the old dog
Expanded noun phrase - the lazy, old dog (noun adjective)
The lazy old dog with the long tail and droopy ears.
What is a fronted adverbial?
Is a word, phrase or clause that describes the events or actions that follow.
Cautiously, she pushed open the door. As quietly as possible, she tiptoed into the room.
The time something happens, the frequency something happens, the place where it happens, the possibility something will or has happened.
Before sunrise, Darius crept into the beast’s cave. Every so often, Darius could hear the beast’s ferocious snore. At the back of the cave , the terrifying creature began to stir. As quick as a flash, Darius bounded behind a nearby rock. Almost certainly, the deadly beast was getting closer.
What is a fronted adverbial?
Is a word, phrase or clause that describes the events or actions that follow.
Cautiously, she pushed open the door. As quietly as possible, she tiptoed into the room.
The time something happens, the frequency something happens, the place where it happens, the possibility something will or has happened.
Before sunrise, Darius crept into the beast’s cave. Every so often, Darius could hear the beast’s ferocious snore. At the back of the cave , the terrifying creature began to stir. As quick as a flash, Darius bounded behind a nearby rock. Almost certainly, the deadly beast was getting closer.
