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Exam Jargon Flashcards

1
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Illustrate

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Quotes

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Find

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Quote

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Identify

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Quote

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4
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Summarise

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Use own words, shorten, key points

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Analyse

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

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Justify

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Give reasons

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Dialogue

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Speech

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Consider

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Give reasons and effects

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Compare

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Explain connections - similarities and differences.

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10
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Suggest

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Give an idea of your own - own words

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Impressions (of)

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What you think - own words

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Why

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Reasons

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How

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Devices/techniques/language features

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Figurative language

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Metaphors, similes and personification

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15
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Comment on

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Explain meaning and effects on reader

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Explain

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Give reasons in your own words

17
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Interpret

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Analyse/explain (p.e.E.)

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Rhyme scheme

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

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Stanza

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Verse

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Mood

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Atmosphere, feelings, emotions

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Fact

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A statement that can be proved to be true

22
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Opinion

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A subjective, individual viewpoint

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Characterisation

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How a vivid sense of character is created

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Setting

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The place where the action/plot happens.

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Theme

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

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Simile

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‘Like’ or ‘as’

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Metaphor

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Saying something is something else to use in description.

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Personification

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Likening something to a human.

29
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Imagery

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Creating an image In the reader’s mind

30
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Alliteration

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A group of words starting with the same letter or phonic

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Sibilance

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Alliteration with the letter ‘s’

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Emotive language

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Used in persuasion. e.g. Cajole

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Repetition

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Repetition Repetition Repetition

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Noun phrases

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When the noun is more than one word long

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Adjectives

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A word used to describe a noun

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Verbs

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A word of action or a ‘doing’ word.

37
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In your own words

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Avoid using words from the text.

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