Exam Jargon

Question 1

Illustrate

Answer 1

Quotes

Question 2

Find

Answer 2

Quote

Question 3

Identify

Answer 3

Quote

Question 4

Summarise

Answer 4

Use own words, shorten, key points

Question 5

Analyse

Answer 5

Explain effects on the reader. What do the words make the reader feel/understand/imagine/think?

Question 6

Justify

Answer 6

Give reasons

Question 7

Dialogue

Answer 7

Speech

Question 8

Consider

Answer 8

Give reasons and effects

Question 9

Compare

Answer 9

Explain connections - similarities and differences.

Question 10

Suggest

Answer 10

Give an idea of your own - own words

Question 11

Impressions (of)

Answer 11

What you think - own words

Question 12

Why

Answer 12

Reasons

Question 13

How

Answer 13

Devices/techniques/language features

Question 14

Figurative language

Answer 14

Metaphors, similes and personification

Question 15

Comment on

Answer 15

Explain meaning and effects on reader

Question 16

Explain

Answer 16

Give reasons in your own words

Question 17

Interpret

Answer 17

Analyse/explain (p.e.E.)

Question 18

Rhyme scheme

Answer 18

Pattern of rhyming - e.g. Rhyming couplet, first and third line contain rhyme.

Question 19

Stanza

Answer 19

Verse

Question 20

Mood

Answer 20

Atmosphere, feelings, emotions

Question 21

Fact

Answer 21

A statement that can be proved to be true

Question 22

Opinion

Answer 22

A subjective, individual viewpoint

Question 23

Characterisation

Answer 23

How a vivid sense of character is created

Question 24

Setting

Answer 24

The place where the action/plot happens.

Question 25

Theme

Answer 25

A set of connected ideas in a text e.g. Death, friendship, love, nature.

Question 26

Simile

Answer 26

‘Like’ or ‘as’

Question 27

Metaphor

Answer 27

Saying something is something else to use in description.

Question 28

Personification

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Likening something to a human.

Question 29

Imagery

Answer 29

Creating an image In the reader’s mind

Question 30

Alliteration

Answer 30

A group of words starting with the same letter or phonic

Question 31

Sibilance

Answer 31

Alliteration with the letter ‘s’

Question 32

Emotive language

Answer 32

Used in persuasion. e.g. Cajole

Question 33

Repetition

Answer 33

Repetition Repetition Repetition

Question 34

Noun phrases

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When the noun is more than one word long

Question 35

Adjectives

Answer 35

A word used to describe a noun

Question 36

Verbs

Answer 36

A word of action or a ‘doing’ word.

Question 37

In your own words

Answer 37

Avoid using words from the text.