English Terms Revision Flashcards
effect of semantic fields
Build an emotion: Semantic fields also help to create undertones to pieces of literature. This effectively builds emotion, and provides subtle indications to a reader as to what may be about to happen
anaphora and epipstrophe purpose
The purpose of anaphora is to draw the audience into the message being delivered, whether in speech or in writing. It can be used to evoke high levels of emotion.
The combination of anaphora and epistrophe results in
symploce
Personification effect
How it’s used: used to create a more vivid illustration of a poem or story, therefore creating a more profound connection with the reader,A creative tool that helps better describe or explain ideas and concepts; thus, “breathing life” to an otherwise dull story
superlative effect
Function of Superlative A superlative is used to indicate an extreme or unsurpassed level of emotion, association, or hatred for an object or a person, or even an event. Particularly, in literature it is used to show the best or the worst of something, to add color or romance to a piece
Compound sentences and their effect
A compound sentence joins more than one major clause with a conjunction (such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘or’).Compound sentences give your writing a faster pace and unite related ideas together
Bad ambitious words:
heinous and abhorrent
angelic ambitious words:
celestial empyrean seraphic ethyreal
mysterious ambitious words:
perplexing , mystical , enigmatic
smart
astute and shrewd
weak could be:
feeble and decrepit
strange could be
paradoxical and outlandish
its everywhere posh word:
ubiquitous
modal verb
an auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. English modal verbs include must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may, and might.
imperative verb
Imperative verbs are words used to create an imperative sentence that gives a command to the person being addressed. The imperative verb is the action that the speaker or writer wants someone to do.