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What is a generic convention

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Features of a text that allows us to put them in a specific genre

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What is context

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The environment in which the text responds to or creates

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3
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What is imagery

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When the writer uses vivid imaginative words to present an idea / text

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what is alliteration

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the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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What is a simile

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highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as “like”, “as”, “so”, or “ than”,

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What is a metaphor

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using words “is” and “or” to compare words/phrases

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What is llusion

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Writers deceive readers’ sense of sight, touch, taste, and sounds, making them imagine what is happening, by illustrating certain details.

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What is personification

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Giving an object or animal human characteristics to create interesting imagery

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Idiom

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common word or phrase with a culturally understood meaning that differs from what its composite words’ denotations would suggest e.g: cat got your tongue

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What is allusion

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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

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WHat is hyperbole

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Something being exaggeratd to make it seem more extreme for the benefit of the story

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What is genre

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A style the story follows

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Different text types

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Factual texts.
Persuasive texts.
Literary texts.
Creative texts

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What is structure

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The arrangement of story elements according to purpose, style, genre

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What is theme

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The main idea/ underlying meaning that the writer explores

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examples of narrative point of view

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1st person

3rd person

17
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What is diction

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Linguistic choices the writer makes to effectively convey an idea/ view/point/story

18
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What is syntax

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A set of rules in language that dictates how different type of speech

19
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What is tone

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The tone implied by the writers words choice and text structure

  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Angry
20
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What is Bildungsroman Fiction

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  • Journey
  • Struggle for identity
  • A social conflict
  • A loss of innocence

e.g: TCI

21
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structure of a short story

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Exposition
rising action
climax
falling action
denouement

English Year 11 (2 decks)

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